ML20033F991

Forwards Matl Submitted by Comley at NRC 900301 Affirmation Meeting Re Full Power License for Plant

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To:	Julian E NRC OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY (SECY)
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MATER . SUBMITTED BY STEPHEN COMLEY Attached is a copy of a' set of materials given to me by ^ Mr. Stephen comley at the commission's March 1,-1990, Affirmation Meeting on Seabrook. Please ple.ce the material in the appropriate file. Attachments: 1. Speech, 3/1/90 2. Press Release, 3/1/90 i 3. Press Packets Summaries 4. Additional Press Clippings { 5. Xerox of Photo j cc: PDR t i i'I v -s 4

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e ~ i SPEECH STEPHEN COMLEY 3-1-90 NRC'HEADOUARTERS I am currently in a conf rontation with top-NRC of ficials because 1 have ref used to cooperate in an internal witch-hur.t' against NRC Office of Investigations Deputy Director Roger Fortuna. Victor Stello, former NRC head, and long time foe of Fortuna made secret payments to an unreliable inf ormant for information that I have tapes of conversations which -i would damage Fortuna. I have not admitted:whether or not the tapes exist because the NRC subpoena is illegal and violates my Constitutional rights to freedom of association. No where in the Bill of Rights do I read'where my right of associ ati on ' i s an exception when I associ ate wi th NRC of ficial s. P The NRC, particularly Victor Stello, wants to silence me or any of his c*ttics so that whistleblowers from the nuclear industry or the NRC will never talk to me or any p -whistleblower group like We The People. He is trying to accomplish this by abusing the agency's power as well as the* power of the federal courts so that these avenues, that he has proved himself are necessary if,we are to hear the truth, l are eliminated. I am now facing $200,000 in court fines and j possibly jail because the NRC is more interested in I protecting industry profits than making 'sure nuclear power f plants are as safe as they can be, i i Our organi: ati on, We The People, Inc. forced' Victor Stello to finally admit in May, 1988 that there are tens of tnousands c of counterfeit substandard components in 59 nuclear plants in the United States including Seabrook..These fl awed i materials, some in systems critical to safe operations, 4 include circuit breakers, piping materials, valves and fasteners. When the nuclear industry comp 1'ained that finding and r eplacing these subntandard materials would be too expensive, l the agency under Stello's direction lowered plant safety requirements, thus increasing the likelihood of a meltdown or other serious radioactive accident. There i s considerable-svidence many of those counterf eit parts have been built ' into t Seabrook Station but the NRC has called of f any f urther investigations in an attempt to save the utility money at the expense of the public's safety. 1 Now Victor Stello has been noninated by President Bush to a high post in the Department of Energy to oversee cleanup of dangerously polluted nuclear weapons f acilities.

However, Stello's vendetta against Fortuna and me which i s now under invertigati on by the NRC's Inspector General, is holding up his cerdirmation by the Senate (<mL Serv 1ces Comm1ttek.

In my cuinton, the man is danger aus and needs help. Under.no ci r cumst ances should he be put in - a posi ti on of any r esponsi bi l i t y.

6 President Bush must recognice that under Mr. Ste11o's past direction, the NRC i s now totally out of control. : The NRC has lost all perspective of their mandate to protect the American people. -The NRC's decision to license the Seabrook plant endangers ~ the communities f or many miles in all directions on the seacoast including Massachusetts, New Hampshire and the President's summer White House in Kennebunkport, Maine, only 18 miles f rom Seabrook. ' The NRC continue to employ their dictatorship rule so that every nuclear power plant in the U.S. will be Itcensed including Seabrook Station. The NRC is intent on ignoring the volumes of evidence which prove that Seabrook Station is too dangerous to operate and that the people who live around the plant could not be evacuated if there was an accident. The NRC has made a moci:ery out of our democratic system. They have ignored the Governors of Massachusetts, New York, Ohio and Nevada. They continue to ignore Congress and more importantly have ignored the American people, their boss. I would like to say that-Senator Kostmayer in my opinion, has done more at this point to uphold what this country stands for and he has done this with great courage and the risk of great criticism. Some reporters have told me they can't figure what's in this f or him because he is going to be up against great critics within the political bureaucracy. My answer to them was that Mr. Kostmayer knows the truth and he also has a f amil y. He knows what will happen. I have been told by nuclear engineers inside this building that we will have a nuclear disaster in this country worse than Chernobyl that can happen any day because of'the way our plants have been constructed and the way they are being run. This wall of corruption that the NRC has built to protect the nuclear industry pr ofi ts at the onpense of America and its f uture must be exposed and torn down so that we the people are freed from this nuclear slavery. It's time that Mr. Bush started to listen to the people of 1 this country innteed of hi s pro-nuclear Chi ef of Staff, John Sununu. I also believe that it would be very politically wise for Mr. Bush to withdraw his nomination of Victor Stallo to the Depar tment of Energy now. Mr. Bush and others must join Senators Uostmayer, Kennedy, Merry, Humphrey and Congressmen Mavroules, Marley and Studds who have answered our call for a full blown investigation of the corruption wi thi n the NRC.

l Gorbachev - the reason why he has been so insistent on disarming the nuclear arsenal was because of Chernobyl. He saw and f elt the ef f ects on his pe'5p1'e 'End what it did. Chernobyl proved that in a nuclear disaster.. radiation does not discriminate. It af f ected our cows milk in Vermont and-l the Russian people have lost their land f or a thousand years s or more. Recently we have seen how the people of Czechoslovakia, Russia, Romania and China proved to.their Communist and Dictatorship governments the strength of people power. They had nothing to lose and everything to gain. We have 7 everything to lose by not exercising the f reedoms -that we were given by our forefathern. { The Vietnam War was stopped by the people, no-one else. The people can stop this holocaust waiting to happen. America belongs to the people. Our f oref athers f ounded this country I so the people would have a say in their government. This country does not belong to the nuclear industry or the NRC. It belongs to the American people and i ts children. Let's take it back. h t l l I n w

I l l. We The People, Inc. of the United States stop Chernobyl Here IMMEDIATE PRESS RELEASE .[ t' EVENT: NRC HEARING ON FULL POWER LICENSE FOR SEABROOH NUCLEAR POWER PLANT l DATE AND TIME: MARCH 1, 1990 HEARING BEGINS 11:30 A.M. LOCATION: NRC HEADQUARTERS, 11555 ROCKVILLE PIME, ~~ ROCXVILLE, HARYLAND (NEXT DOOR TO THE WHITE FLINT HETRO STATION) l DEMONSTRATIONS: VIGIL 8 P.H. 2-28, PROTEST 9:30 A.H.-3-1 i PRESS CONTACT: NUCLEAR INFORMATION RESOURCE SERVICE (NIRS) WASHINGTON DC (202)328-0002 $7EPHEN B. COMLEY, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR WE THE PEOPLE, INC. (500)948-7959 OR (202)628-6611 The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has caid it will hold a hearing regarding a full power operating license for the Seabrook nuclear' power-plant on March 1. The hearing will commence at 11:30 a. m. We The People, an antinuclear educational group and its Director, Stephen Comley, is traveling to Washington to join other antinuclear groups who will protest the license. A candi'elight vigil at 8 p.

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1990 and a demonstration on March 1, 1990 at 9:30 a.m. is planned. Both { events will be held in front of NRC headquarters in Rockville, Maryland. Various groups throughout the country will take part in these demonstrations. Conley, one of the invited guest speakers, will reassert i that there is information the NRC has dismissed which shows there are l serious safety problems with that plant and half the other nuclear plants around the country. Comley is currently in a confrontation with top NRC offici.als because he has refused to cooperate in an internal witch-hunt against NRC Office of Investigations Deputy Roger Fortuna. Victor Stello, former NRC head, and long time foe of Fortuna made secret-payments to an unreliable informant for information that Comley has tapes of conversations which would damage Fortuna. Comley han not admitted whether or not the tapes exist, saying the NRC subpoena of the tapes is illegal and violates his Constitutional right to freedom of association. "The NRC, particularly Victor Stello, wants to silence critics such as myself, and are abucing the agency's power and the power of the federal i courts to do so," Conley said. "I am now facing $200,000 in court fines and possibly jail because the NRC is more interested in persecuting critics like myself than in making sure nuclear power plants are as safe as they can be," he ctated. We The People, Inc. headed by Conley, forced Victor Stello to finally admit in May, 1988 that there are tens of thousande of counterfeit substandard components in 59 U. S. nuclear plants in the United States-Main Oflge: llot 277 Rowle). M A 01969,(508) 94g.?939 A = p'ent. tat mmm o'sammam 50 Court St.. Pl) mouth, M A 02361,(508) 746-9300 National Press Bldg. 14 & f. Sts.. N.W., Washington D.C. 20045,(202) 628-6611 Offices $ & 6, 3 Pleasant St., Concord, NH 03301.(603) 228-94ka Habern VillaN. Rome % Kennebunk, \\lf 04(ut.(207) 967 5111

1 - ] i l l I l i ( ) including Seabrook. 1These flawed materials, some in systems critical to l safe operations, include circuit breakers, piping materials, valves and fasteners. t "When the nuclear industry complained that finding and replacing these l l substandard materials would be too expensive, the agency;under.Stello's j-direction lowered plant safety requirements, thus increasing the ) likelihood of a meltdown or other serious radioactive accident. Conley said, "There is considerable evidence many of those counterfeit parts have been built into Seabrook Station.but the NRC has called'off any further investigations, an attempt to save the utility money at the expense of the public's safety." Now Victor Stello has been nominated by President Bu'sh to a high' post in the Department of Energy to oversee cleanup of dangerously polluted nuclear weapons facilities. However, Stello's vendetta against Fortuna and Comley, now under investigation by the NRC's Inspector General, i s __. holding up his confirmation by the Senate Arms Services Committee. "In my opinion, the man is dangerous and needs help. Under no circumstances j should he be put in a position of any responsibility," Conley said. " President Bush must recognize that under Mr. Ste11o's past direction, { the 'iRC is now totally out of control. The NRC has lost all perspective of their mandate to protect the American people. The NRC's decision to lict: 0e the Seabrook plant endangers the communities for.many miles in 1 all directions on the seacoast including Massachusetts, New Hampshire and the Peesidents summer White House in Kennebunkport, Maine," Conley statel. The Russian people have already felt the affects of Chernobyl which proves that, in a nuclear disaster, radiation does not discriminate. It affected our cows milk in Vermont and the Russian people lost land for a thousand years. "The NRC continue to employ their dictatorship rule so that every nuclear power plant in the U.S. will be licensed including Seabrook Station. The NRC is intent on ignoring the volumes of evidence which prove that Seabrook Station is too dangerous to operate and the people who live around the plant could not be evacuated if there was an accident. The NRC has made a mockery out of our democratic system. They have ignored the Gove.rnors of Massachusetts, New York, Ohio and Nevada. They continue to ignore Congresc and more importantly have ignored the American-people, their boss. Mr. Bush and others must join Senators Kostmayer, Kennedy, Kerry and Congressman Havroules who have asked for a full blown investigation of the corruption within the NRC. This wall of corruption that the NRC has built to protect the nuclear industry profits at the expense of America and its future must be exposed and torn down so that we the people are freed from this nuclear slaveryv" Comley concluded.' We The People will be distributing signs saying, " DANGER SEABROOK NUCLEAR ZONE NO EVACUATION POSSIBLE" as well as " CONGRESS PROTECT U.S. DEMOCRACY. INVESTIGATE THE NRC". i ~ l- ~.

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I m: ing Stello and the Fortuna Affair: Backbiting at the NRC Tale ofintrigue and aDeged revenge could doom nominstion of Bush choice to & crippled nudear weapons complex \\ 1 Sof internaj aRairs listed in her omenme in 1998, b Nuclear Regulatory Commission's chler Stello to the !!st that locludes Robert H. Bork, John Tower and Wmnnes Lo. t motebook three onvestites for as inves-est (3cohgroimd, pp. 332,330 This is the story of what has b t$gstion she had begun. Sharon l ConneDy citejed the item she put at W ese

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the Forsma AEalr. a real41fe esep ag> l era one member of Congmas sans 'No. The target was Roger Forama, the FI* clear Heepital."It is a tale of besse. eecond ranking NRC ofLeialin charge t cratic and pottien1 backbittag in which ofinvesagat=g wrongdoing at suejant virtua!y everroce has at least the ap. power plants. Supected of "b90 ding pearance of an as to Itlevolves an organisation to topple" the NRC, r pf* estelopes filled goessatassa he was almast fired. But after the in. Y quiry became public. ConceDy and the .5. t tooney, allegations about pot smoking nuclear plant operstars, a top escres NRC's esecutivo direenor, Victor SteDo Jr., were massed of pursning a contreet, fake enesticas, as ammened vendetta against Fortuna for being tao anne, ch0d soolematies and a aggmessive assiast lodustry easiens. deeinies to Bae a saan 8300,000 = Ei to psodues tapes nobo# la see bar,ghteen months after the probe -and a year shar ( 4 to "basaammm*Persums see Beerybe h fpeelee0 dealse W d. Siberna" - R$ en %es someluded that be v6olated esything useas. 1 eny lees er rules. On Feb. 20. he oss asser > afeem his job back. l

==== amine Isthememotham Pestu The utda a sana has taham es senemm,enn sm=na'e edgeley 88s8' ##'eme spent $80,000% darmainem h eeN omagalangay1 6 asmed aSWR S Elas Demeeres se seveent sampo. elebr.pleng am,hnhesa gad gggght aboaal===am+ma== ~ the Hames's late, years a e nuclear regnietee, it now obicihmeer who espame rear and Enertr pe==h and Senata appears that if his meaninsties feRa, taped wisenaRy eserF eggEm,se base ma set. Ca - "d Affairs - hsw seemed ottans *W have been his undoins. vesssalon be had der essesal passa. Po! sed to debter & fatal biceis a Deperne for money, he tdsd to seG on the esas as proof of their oft.atated abasse that the NRC h in bed whh newly enacted cre.a: ion of Stallo's artt. his tapes to the highest kiddae== a it evereses. its - the NRC's impector general, a l cosmet the NRC 540 by desinen. b '!be leeolvement of IJteBo. who gnar1 isdependent check Congrees sa. 1984, when is Ms EMBin tima helped separvise the Fortuna probe. posed on W agency last year. and espesass tapes of PImamma. has made the emne that snuch pneier Two onths ec the job. Inspector EBuon was werktag $st the Ntaa for the NRC's napoyars in Congrou Gteva' Cari:! C. Wilha=s is rniewtag-MDe Point UnitIseclear

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.GA $sello is volved k" three branebes of gepers.' first bomme knees is the b Preddest Bush's cominee to be eash-teen, thm.cii of pga of documents 1988 Mkellesetteesthes tant meerstary of energy. His job wocjd be ta resueeltate the Departroent of I ard toceu k e., of testimony, hawk violated a numhae tidsrel i '.as: :mor.h, h Armed Sem:ss safety reguladana psampted the keergy's (DOE) ertppled multibmies. Cott.=me+ wu os & verge of recem < agency se Ana the asageIF debar acelear bomb production coin. tsendm; S:tLo's conurmation han la Apr0 1987,the 8mm suse Silas, and DOE oSicials say he is the baled qm icarting that he is a focus 82,000 to eastle a hamprr==== em> enly person Who trould take of Wi'hani tnrewdgetion. SteDo is ae. plemt. la tetsa, he Suk, 8be cuSed of cote. ring up sa:nl5cantsafety Refese heleft,h Ahbeesb Stello's ertrics la Con-vWtw in im zest to get Fortuna eneveresness with emulous SMist beve accused hism of snuth Grex! and r# l.sg to Coe ress to je. Niasme Moheset aedsam As spentar pro.indistry esas during his 23 ti'y hi r. u m tn ihis est of increas. tisme, be ses sedianaphen inth *uopie krwe coantes. Camkry, an assi SI M s Nt maar tiorr.. M m.4 be senach to add in==parnad of mahime assusef e 888 - TT.BRUARY 74. 1990 CQ 1414 22r.f Street WII M cus hin ~'. > n, PC 20037

) W ....s, G The CastinBrief i Roger Fernane: Demr*y @neta'r of NRC's Ornee of Irwen. ) semens too. w%sh vwesessies insustry wrongdoeg sie. peWeaf sucre end Meelheens. A laps of hkn alhing to Perhme ses key a se t=emenon pended sor a mee m tgIB.rusasiped a the Free of kformonen afsos ser 11. seeMeyemDennerafge0mseef twen. - I } moes and rearned to 01 Peth 30. / - egenens. pagfu to get Fetan les jet tech.. Viener siete,lr.t Career federal masiner power regWetor. EAar.seve Direeser for Op. fj .lemme Eisha Ofteialin Sweet afbee ii eremens of the NRC trail mie 1300. Nar6 who mood Cemee sume the Forass h. r runed tg President tish a to assuem ? ds#988on - essrsary of enegr for solenas pregems -j inet J anc esognes e a lower.devel En. b-Alans.nasemak Permeradmkdme8ve ise hged by se NRC,meerSmense ,,i Jos ponens consmusen by me asnan. seems tem a une over se pomma h. 8tures

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• Mormwk Power Corp.'s Nns Mis Paire Usut 1 rae He irwesegeon of the Fortuna effair has seerpower piamkupausIww York. Peel sidoseshed Stess's tenhrmanerL Informart ane Fortuna's crust answeer.

leerk Rennen One ef Conne#fs top i l susden a.comisposeerof"m we Pease we. of en Unme sun." en are ,ismen II. feyter: rormer J organsamen sene wee nsweresiswinim as the Cs nummer.-- tormee m Egnt me g_enereek. NJt. manor top eeny, negesse proponni e are pse, umans wnianis 13 mese trem se msong meme no' nam, semeig a repnmand hkn holand. 49 sene in houser. Mesa. Han htee skytenes 13el e m 9L Esek 88te Breelded euer i to e awaminar ammers euer essersua comasy pwemst esse en appset overasmas mammans. r 3 1 [ himentf a part of acampelga to provea tima and,in his words,"despasste* hdly slibest and due {6 the indusuy and the NRC esempt. for the Geseramental A5miss seed to deale i Ellese)esping hehitis ese ofeso. j esel aspone of his life that have led tie hegna tryleg to sell what he by esales up a somat 81AARD espees topiness esma and n mesy to gummien his deserthed u *estaamass" full et sepas per Blimen. In Oamber it08, he was that proved en the part of hetdeelsiseweeldleasrleadas with molasdag his famDy's is. year old the NRC and Moheek. E la Congius to that the leses haby sitter, and two other minen told peddled them enbeat eueeses to ens Geer i euthoridas of stanGar inseemses of nas. Conley and verleus news essasina.' - , D. Calif., and San mal emiseenduet. asasedtag to e Gewers. siens. In what one eseguesdenal n. D. Casa,anBed it"part of a senslank monial Asnirs Comuninas nyert en port entled "an enempt at eSert hy thsMRClo tadasemine0ter ' the Fortuna aSair. Esse esid he was. estartion," he tried to povesede hs.'_. " __ et possbie wsmagt bened, but be pleaded guary to a lesnar Niaguru Mohawk to boy them, lag by NIFC h " in a tiles bargain. la August 1988, E!!ison oom. Connellyand Stallolasist that pe iagara Mohawk's is estignaion of his harnessment semplaat esecluded to Sharon CeaseDy OIRee of nonal and I amissel and Auditee (OlA) that his y no la their desimies, that he "wes sendested to asumenal 1906 tiens had been saishandled hath had teseing and ridicule by his peers as a by the cm of inessesosions (OI),of run ins with Forema and his t result of his personal habits and un. which Fortuna was ty diresser. D!ressor Bee Playes, eene me. i usual sooduct." not en latiaidation (he 01A. since by the is. docuanensed by the NBC4 seems i A federalpassanor would spector somatal, used to inessuoste ' esaminnene ts Censuma and e5 later the NRC that EDaen had "a stoegdotag wnhin the NRC. 01 etlE entlywell.insemin the agual work history ineolviet estassive ob-investigates a d', within the in. ban Maryland headgannen.yis eenn for amatal health een a dustry.) sulwe essais with she at es t The preescusar called him *s very EBiaan also aDesed wreesdaieg by cials msnmed inn a leaguesadis

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(E;oz* p' $M) ( y to Kentmapr was what p, happseed to the dnig - Stenoappears i obatp6 nadar a way to pay Ellinea for his aforms. g g.. seneesten est ano. gaties, a mornah i tion was no easy masser. Frierhy saaster - i Comaeuy did not have ende hem been seh mes D suthority to do it hersell /* to the OdBee ofInvasalen. I i j She talked to NRC Gen. .O N M /. > times - whose Formas el Counsel Winiam C.

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8 worked. Seabo did met 4% q hitinsa as levanipulse t to ese whether a smaD v efthe shssen unti fund could be set up to klass E weeks af. i pay informanu. She of.. ter the whole mamar had feed no detans of the g become publie and tuo l pending invatiMon. anwee esmeer hand eues sh6seshes ser the invesmososa in her meaths aner Festmaa g,,,,,, a c,.. passent a***een. onaes et me top wee "pisequ ew.* lenemed est he was the-i meDy.Parlar wrote:"I am not aware of nerehad beam a flee et'the Nine Mae target of an innaemelineutry.- any budget justi5antion data in our m. Point reactor in 1986 that the eom. "I didn't want to aampreales the isting authority which would authorise pany had not reported to the NRC, Investigation." Stallo told Eastmay. the establishment of such a fund.* But and employees at the reactor were us. er's subcomal:tes, hie, he said if the ready needed the messy ing drugs, anastly =at . when El. decision to delay was to arry out the NRC's 'public benlth linen wwhed thera. Stallo esid be the drug I l and safety minaion" she should let him Sinor the Fortuna affair beenme charge coald wait beesume the start.eg l t know the detaus and seek his advise, pubhe. Steue has repomaadly senphe. date for the reester had " slipped -A Cease m.e.lly went to Stallo, told,hima of sised these " safety" issoas to aherity anar the Ellisen es.emest se! .rge. a.d ab.d, si, - - t. p. o .et .g.ed. i ss.mi me .s.es seem though abe was emppened to be in195,when Commelly and the othere heevoet, ahoe that the does had met ' bdependsat of his la0mese and adR. briefed SteBa, he and Csemelly kommune it wee alungs aussid. t' sinDy sessered emirto the esaminima sammad assa iseasesend in - ahiny to be for etin thedeman, J ist that sessen. StaDo weald letar tat else-aJan.14.1987, tape of Fesman insporesentmed.Seeldse,he Conguesthat helaarmed of ass abege. and Camley tendag en the phase. the asespanyt other sonster ses sea. times dsessly related to endsey at tan Bleha sold the hw ARahs and asme empispass sushed as - masshs with CommeEy, but essesel h Ceaunimme.Reasd on that tape,which planes. I gasselemed the ammensmy, was to hasses the.easempisse of the "tir. SamGo igassed pubes ham. s seashmedan... does est inesselsmeise. SeeDo desided to emner and emissy whGe pusuming a ssedssba,* espear to be suppened by the see. lato a top.esset"esenhh te=y= reased.* the Govenn. with Ellinen, Slaba enid. g"commest Eenmeyer tend the Sennet Assed Servises twhnam =1helless thes he mestal Affairs Commitsee later eso. steded. His " safety andanale" may he Safsey gutplet hee wGibDy adsled my embesemaduse as wou as other emmedenssa." have *merely provided a esovenient StaBo hee indiented to'Congsees esser to de milag the NRC gen. that the oefety ausameses, ather than EEsenpaid eral enemmel had otherswe ladiamond the tape, were foresnest la his mind. The first perusset to Minas was seuld not be done." said W panel. E said the plant to which the charges $800 wired to hima en Aug. 31. Ile tun. which concluded that Stello won related was about to be restarted after snadiately drove from Flaside to sehr dwply involved from this point on, being down for about a year."For that urban Virvinia and eheshed late time After mee ' with ConneDy.StaGo romano. I felt it important to param Embaary Son' es heenL wenttoGeneral Parlarandamid these aussations promptly" he tald Sewecy komme parameuun. When the inferemation Conne!!y was aflat is, the House Istarier Seheem,adttee en the NRC4 divisise dhesear of een. deed had estery implications. Pa.lar ad. Invasasetiaan, traces signed the seemsmary desumsme, vined Stano that be could enter into a . To tubeammittee Chairman Peter he was not alleoed to see Misang eentreet with the taformant - as less H - Eastmayor. D.Pa., Stano's es. name on li. At the hsesi Bison es. as them was a maand, fully desunented planeseo did not riar true. In a letter aused the asme '*! nam, ass ? Pty. benish sad eafety rationsla. to the Sensen Arimed Samens Com. masts to ERisse muse to be modo en p An ei6aal from Stallo's eGice, mitten, Kasanayer enid that there is msh - delivered is esamisses # Jeanes Blaha, was emissed to the emne "sigalSenat ransna to denbt" that Blaha is four insentmanes-to seaid ) and ha, Conneuy and one of har tap StaDe haev whether Muses had any havis EDissa's asme en gewesesset-meistants. Mark Rasser, flew to Flor. me,r tiens. No NRC espens with sheeks. ida to see whether Ellinen had any knearledge of RIhnee's test lovestgatsmis 0BA umetsid that ( i enfety ellegations that the NRC had charges reviewed his 1908 eharges, there was nothlag to Elsem4 eEste. met DWously eddressed. bloreover, Eastmeyer said, internal tions and that the emme Ele would me Elbmon provided them with two: docusesta show that the plent's te. slosed. CeaseDy and Reemer teelt See - { He - FERRUARY 24. IMO CQ I i k ] i ~,--,ww- .,---,-,--n-c-,..,,, ~ ~ ~ ~. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

l l . 86 s s % ;'se:em wtbv m. un u.m reA 1. mentha) wd in a swtr nert to FA:,on's r tbxt Although Dhon first told OIA la theu staden t.orLet oct, the nmret of 19f4 that Comley had For two weets, Connelly, BLt.ha.ud more tapes, the NRC made no at. game, hstened to Clison's tapes. isa;L. tempt to get them until the affair be. trameripts snade and taaed to Elisoh. reme public and Paaa*kal ses at. Enison was inteniewed in & preseac, of a court reporter only once, signed to the anne.He haued Casaley a subpoena, but Conley has reamed to on sept.12, the interviee focused al. comply,depite some 8500,000la Sasa eest esclusitsly on Ellison's aDeca- .p and jail threats tem a fedeseljedge la cons about Femma. He told them Bestaa. Cemley seM is as leemrviset EE that Comley, b actmst. and Fortuna "I have not eonarened nor dealed that '/ I have any tape 6" ag

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put together the biggest package to Fortuaa's peelties is that he mes l rove that the [NRCJ isn't regulatzag just euldvating Conley as a potential 4 hut promoting the industry. Elliaan aowem "Sometimes pee alittleto { also said Conley had scores of tapes of get a litda," be' He danled his converesdons with Fortuna. I; + Twice in Septetaber, Connelly in. ear giving e-nadametal lofonmaalaa to Pamby, and Cemley hanke bien op, [ [.., dtad criminal inveaugatoes to get in. Butto e the eeben., ~ ,olved in the Fortuna probe. D11 eon's tapes . =ama*bdair I [/ An FBI agent came to & botel to much more nefarious. "Ffilann't beget ') Er.en to some of the tapes beesu" conneur and Raner busht bnkry "Mr. Stello ignored Dublic thai Comley, with the==~ d. w imdar the direstion of Forsman, as might be imeolved. '1% agent found health and safety while batiding an aganludos a uppie the nothing enmmel about Fortuna's con. Nuclear Regulatary Comammon was varnenon with Conley but did erpress pursulDg & VeDdettA." supported by b tapes," anyt a desu-totarost in saaesalms whether scene. meat from their fDen. body had violated wiretap statutas G -Rep Petar E. Eastmayer has mover been clear trho taped the Safety Second crucial Jan. 14, 1997, convetistion, They did not appear to be as seri. Coole er snisen; anah haemm the eied abas man==4 ether - 9 other. Emerynes sapees that the tape than isselelag other - alus l t I glean to the NRC has been ehmed te levant sanons of of omeials aftar the " pe=hl==a at Niasega 28abe=8: eene form.) Femma edair became pubUc, found coagn==malisseedgesses heee e-my also mantestad the US. Fmama's actioes durm the phone <==d= dad that the mese ammeda'F te emne in I'lahimaso, Pres. eeB to be "eassely incoesistant with their main Sonen. ammaw himEm told her la a let-the heatm of his oEicsal peeltion." Of Said a stadt sagnet by the Bearry ter "The tape sessediegs do not dia-most annaarn to Ramenthal was the ap-and fornaamse .h-maan=a em Bs. s elene that Mr. Fortuna partidpated la parent " conspiratorial flavor" of the ergy and Power:"ConsaDy Bienad these the commiseen of any artaminal of. eenversation. He gave examples objestives for her tavastisseios in har fanse." It ses MeXee who isDed EDI- / Fortuna promised Cemley that be personal notabeek. Two selated no son "a vary atender reed on which to ( plana to have an airplane Dy an anti-would not ta safety saattare, but at the top of the sest e eriminal case." list, sireled, won 'Diepene d BF.' l Many others would later some to theemmecanchaise abouttheFortuna, 'k nuclear hanner over the Justice De. Connally appears to have archeapesse partment the foDoming day; Fomma the investiganea to are Festama

• l Conley tape. "We found very little ren.

advised Comley how to set when he In an intarewer, CanaaDy coe> non for.. thk inestigation." said & went to the Justice Department the firmed the quote, but denied the staff-Governmental Affairs Coraminae. neat day to press for an invest ation ers' con:lusion and added: "We're not y J. Brian Hyland, a eresar investi- -i of a amp Conley unted reopened and taDdag about Regee Fortune abe per. 4 gator who reviewed the esas for the told him which NRC staffers would son, we're taDdagabos Forteen NRC, found that charpes against Far. anand; and Fomma did nothing to the lesus, that partion d case." l ,a uma "were blown out of proportion de Comley tec.c: thmking that Blaha deternimad that alsnost eB bemuse of personaland organizational Fortuna had the inside mforms, of Dhnen's safety allegadoes had been r I ~ a*mmty" between 01 and 01A. tion about & NRC, but was witing adequately addrened two peers ese-I gy-NRC Oeseral canaal Parler, who { to relenne it. lier. A few were ingnam9 mead esseek I ,3 is also the esency's chief ethies oft' leet, "none and time again in W Jan. latar, including the dnig aheses that concluded that the tape shows no vL 14 oonvenations, Fortuna croswd the SteUo had pot en held. elatises of key employee. conduct time separating proper and improper talen. conduct," Rosenthal coneleded. Focus on Portsma Part e s's W But be anno conc]uded that there Work on the sees alosed edtar E58-was "insufDaient evidenee* to show een checked out of the Ihnheemp 8eltae Onff one oEcial, another Ineesti, that Foruma geee Cotniet av cen. botal on Sept. 18,1988. Det 86 picked

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Camley.Fortuna tape troubheg. Alan ebe to violate NTtC ruim hv tapes ConneOF's staff first enthad to Phg. S. Rameathal, who took oeet all OIA ( Commley may han wonM te k IpM.m tuna. l \\ CQ FtalttJAllY 24.1990 -

- - -. - - - - - - - - - n. -.. - - - - - - - - i j l In an informal interview, staff the whole case ese to lhtah:J on patts tun $ed, and tbc 1stular Com. 1 merebm asked Tor:v.re ordy abart. Feb. 08. A weeb !atet, ConneUy asked n.irue u about w talease yet another 9 how his ofnee Land;ed Chson's 1%6 to be n eas:.igned. and a job wu c: ente d critical teport. Detextets from all i auesotione and told his riothing for har in the cotaptrober's of5et. She three panels attempted to persuade about & tapes. Wksa Fornma askea said 6be is hapry these, the Senate Armed Servlees Commielen 1 whether he was the taspot of an is. Ahar falung to set job protectnea to reject $asBo's acmination. l guiry they were *deliheretely vague from the federal souria. Forman west

• fkreushout 1988 and late early and lasecurate/' elelating am OIA of-th an einherste administradae 1990,they did met appear to be hoolag prosess that he enid east him much impost. A maperity of the eso. ' ;

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Almost three months later, For. put Fortune's fate in his hoes *6 hands, panel, ineluding Giona, were esenlag 1 tuna found out he was the only target. but SteDo did not allow Sps to par. diesenting opiniens and hoplag they j 1 & was wdwed to answer questians

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from ofA ohtals - under sesh and On James M. Taylor, an. esht assinet e emb.cehinst appaisene, i L . la the presanee of a samt aputer, esbar doomy, desided that Fw. A law passed by Censress la 198 On advise from hislevyer,Fortuna tuna would met he Asod aber at be. (PL 100 804) at the behest af the refused. He demanded to know what seuse he later agveed to he lateresswed.NRC's ertties and spensesed Oless changed everything. It the - 1 authwiry the aseney had to form him by Resenthat. But Futuna was issued," 01A as of last year and re a formal reprimand for rehening se he i i to answer quotions under oath and i . offered to subnA to another informal laterviewed the first time and was ae-with the Ofnee of the lampester Geo-note.taking interview. He septained tated to the Freedom of Information eral. whoes chief was to be later that he feared being tricked into offiee " bureaucratic Siberia," he by the president and bythe- , a perjury 6hasse. ended it - aher a smeethleng neeve. - Senate - met the NRC, ) A list of 01A's planned guations Fortums arealed tse sepumand Fw the erlsles, the low eE. j 4 -later obialmed by westensional in. and persuadec !stallo to step aside and The man appointed to be in. 1 esseisstars - shows that the efneinle hand the emme eve to Christine N. opector rol mes Martin C. i a wanted to ask him detaDed questions khl, an administre.tive judge. She one of CeauselPesler'sdepe - about his seesweations whh Canley ties. He hashediatah began his aus I and Euines.ney planned to make it noventisemes and has komed as to-appear asif they were only en serim report that senses demasihed a : annesments from Enteem. samass "Is that FSBrToice, guese esistal af hour Festuma sus 9 treated. to weit tastR the end of the E0geef.NRC ofBelais n o g,,,,d i, inn i,,,,,,,,,, ta play him a tape, "Is that your solen, Reger?" they had M to Sak, eral poet ses WWama ! who has a esseerin dudasellsees-J had planned a ess-Oe Feb. 22,1800, Feraus was eigesinas passhly eating essass, 1 pleesd en administratin lesse and in. sises to main chamaetsu is an eles, formed by one of Stauo's depuuss that dissaissed the minandest E used to oesti ter Myland-the he was propesas to fire him te refun-egainst Fortuna and espumped forener hdesel imeessienter she said = las to be interviewed. Afiar that, the repreend, sayuig NRC eBatis vie. the Feeeman ebassus wese "bleen om ' whole thing blew up. lated their own petions when they of properties" - when Ilytand war Within days, Democrats from tried to fasse Fortens to tasafy under the Deparument of labert Imagesass - l Whas en the Psesident% ' three consremional somentiseen, won esth. She aise gusatiesed their see. - ~ es Organised kr aware of the histerieel asafhet be. tius. tween 01 and CIA. and O! and SieBo, Under pressure bem Wayes, Tey, wwhed with boyesassessismal wwe demanding aD docements telat. lor - who repnaesd Stelle o enscottw who in the Pwhina effel Ing to the Fortuna ase: NRC employ. director - agreed to give Fortuna his Andes of the GAO's spealat in- ! ees later adaesed desvoytag seine of former job back, effestree Feb. 30. - vestigation divisina, he revicoed the them. 1900, prodded be desumented aD fe. O!A's of several esses undes - [ ture disemmons with lufssmenta.

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The Story treeks chassa of seeinst Stere - l niasi really bested up when in. 8teto'sPrehtents and lassed his own artment sepest, i side NRC, a scroppy samhnonthly ine n SteBoi no miassion to Waham who began seek Dee,3 mewelettar, broke the nut of the story the DOE ensimmat semesary pass, ru-in m' eaniquales aspect of the I - that Ellinen had been paid enero - mesed in the - and annoussed la Fortues olhlt. Whethe Per than 96,000 for his leformaties. In a - July, has ' the semelse of the sansdid sad stuths a leteer, Reps. Gejdensca and MiDer NRC's erities. Staus lied to een so anned the permest "dieseseeas!" and Cuttiaal suports were issued by the what the Asused Osmemise g enid 115ankes a mockery of NRC) Oooermaneetal Aamise Commenen, espassed to hear when et une paspar invesusanw presses and dissedita chaired by John Glena. D.0hio, and lag to vene se Sente last semili, o the soumission." (The General Ae-the staff of the House Emmsy and emise sa the aseinstles ses past 'G countias Office (GAO) letar eaa. Power Sabensamittee, shaired by posed indeashair. eteded that payment to Eumes was a Philip R. Sharp, D. lad. no Mem. "We did est kaser how 6 a less! aspenditurn.) mayer sulmommittee held a heated aDegotions were I Under beevy fire, the NRC turned hearing at which aD the key pareas. said Chaittaan $asa una, 1-CS FISRUARY M 19se - 2 1 ~

l I_t%8RCPulledEveryWhichWay l In 1932. Congress pramtred the Nue'. lear Regulatory (01A). who was suspected of doing Stallo's bidding. Commission to areste an independent cindre of invuoti. Differences between SteDo and Fortuna data back a gators to pursue crunisal mongdoers within the industry. decade or so.6en Fortune pushedfor an invesogotion of in 1987, the NRC was told to rein in the gumshoes. In 1988, StaDo's the ingsdry into the 1979 'hree MDe Congress signaled that it wanted then let lease again. Island accident. FB!ismementedan enesed camir up, For much of its 16 year esweencn, the NRC has been but StaDo was never and denies ) ? pulled in opposite directions by opposing forces in Con. StaDo and Fortues had words and r gnes - those strong!y supporting the nuclear industry ments for years," Rayes has testified. Fortuna sai, "I and those tnore skeptics! or opposed, find myself a victim of vengennet, lying and deceit, all In In some ways, the dispute in Congrecs is reDected in retallation for beving tried to do a job that certain bitter coa'liets among top NRC staters. To many, the never wanted done at all? Roger Fortuna aHair was such a confhet. (Story,p. Ass) Detly denied that, "My. j a 1b NRC created Fortuna's Office of tions I scooern westo beehb He (OI) in 1982, when the agency was under the for to "I do not how any toward Mr. Fortuna." aggrundrely inreengate several cemen. It was est up as an %ere were mah Fortuna and and independent arm that toported directly to the cammin-Pnaanne. NRC ofDetes testined that, in the afone ~ sion, byp such top stafers as Victor Stallo Jr., who inv==ngmene, Omnally's "diedein* for 01 was "hgendary." was conside an ally of the pro-industry forces and who General Counsel Wilham Parler said. "There was a mutual later became the NRC's executive directar for operations. tuna, he said, was "the worst pcasible ~'-{against For-lack of respect " Pitting StaDe and Conned ^" and Under Fomma and Dnector Ben Hayes, the 01 was i' very agEreenive;in the eyes of many "the low conuson #tanaminnM* of annmna esage." they were nnmnareable free egents. Critics said ConneDy often trivial a flane Tom Bevill. D-Ala chairman of f, of wen==% She once had a -inninng NRC the House Appropriations Sub-i" - foDowe:I to ese if he was laeving work early. Har otBee conunhzae on Energy and Watar also L--E ' a peank in which too water.fDied con. Developenent, pushed the NRC to dams een hung outside the NRC's bandquartess, merge the OI with inspection divi-Said Beyse, "Pwe been a lot by Ma. eions under Stallo's control. Bevill enanany," a,==Img to Beyue an ed5 del then0ier ann = Int-ed O! -duplicative and m. with the esses, one eherse mes ever==hana=88=*='t dundant? The NRC --M - that he a gasernamt car by it di. auch a move in the mid 1980s but verted to pick him up at home and to a dumped the idea after mmplainta Ee8E mesdag. ConseDy was la the diverted car. Hayes ses ha m othem in mdedmg Hanse Insanar cemened and famed to pay about 88, i Chaartman Morris K. D. Aria. att was poser run smok," eeld formeer OtA BevH1 after orderms the NRC to put OI ter Mammen Cooler. She esore that many OIA i under control lese in 1987. In 1983, the other wei, vindistirs:" Roger Portune's story is not unusual" factum weigbed in ognin. At the bebast of the House la fast.1aspaene/haa=1 David C. WEhems. who is i Interior and Energy panels and the Senate Environment avviewing the Fortuna effair. has juu begun lookka into end Public Woricsrem both chamhas poseed bids annehme aBegation of retribution against OIA. 00t 4140, S 2443) that would have aquired the NRC to With Stalloi knowledge, Connelly invenussted ca. make the OI lndependent again. Neither was enacted: O! roer staffer James Keur after be told Congnes in 1987 2 remams under the contral of the NRC's executree duectne. that the NRC was notaggreeefsely @ !y At the NRC. there was a munilar conflict over how tions at noclear P ants. Accused of uuv. ~. l aggressively industry wrongdoing should be investigated. a job from a utDity, Kelly was mW but be fought Underlying the meh was a tusic philmophical dis. back, and the NRC expanged his record. WDliaine watna puta: Stello argues that criminal inquiries snust acene- "to find out if Keur was famed," a eaurce said. times coene seemed to esauring public heatch and asfaty: Conne0y wonidn'tdocuss her workla deteD butdealed Fortuna and Hayes say mannel wrongdoies by industry having vedictm macionen:"I was dahs l is itself a top. priority health.and.sefety leone. Others said she had seasons to distfee the Hayes Hayes has complained to Congues several times that was quite critimt of Connelly's work, and openly en. StaDo refused to support hh investigations. He nece ac-dorsed Constess' decision to replace OIA with an inspee. I l emend SeeDo of a thinly veiled ettempt... to control 01? tar seneral. As far Fortuna,be and his wifs, Bhlrtse.com l NRC's oversight conunistees beve heued reports on testified in e een ameriminaman snee against I neveral instanens in which they meeluded that SeeBo bed top .%at case beenme a big embereusement l impeded O! inquiries or otherwise tuttled with Hayes

• Pm Iv. She was accused of trying to intunidets the nm nat's why Demoasta rected so quicidy a year complamant and suspended for a time With DEF. 'HIB ago upon lamrums that Fortuen. OI's deputy director, was Jussion Department away=' art and harahir "8'8 8"d 9

about to be fired. He was being investigated at the thee her, and key coegvesunes demanded that she be flesL by Sharon Cor.nelly or the OGia of Inspector and Audst dtg m eagr .eIL a ^ T. eso - FT.BRUARY 2[ 1990 CQ y. *.'

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j bureaucrat Victor Stellofagainst veteran.MRC:investig'ator-Roger Fortuna. Stello paid a dubious' informant.for testimony that'. j Comley has tapes of telephone conversations.with Fortuna. .A federal. court has ordered comley to comply with an NRC subpoena of.the: tapes, although-Comley has not said whether-they exist or not. He believes the subpoena. violates his Constitutionel.right-to. freedom'of association. :He'also maintains the NRC' lacks subpoena power in internal: administrative matters such as this one.- In the spirit of ' civil' disobedience as-practiced by.Dr. l Martin Luther King, Jr.; Comley'is resisting.the il1egal-subpoena and the court's' order. At a contempt-of-court cost. _l of $1000 per day since last. July,LComley worries about tho' _ f future of the family nursing home. Ironically, it;was his concern for the nursing home residents-which-first alerted-i him to the NRC's shortcomings. In 1986 Victor:Stello stated. no emergency evacuation plans were_necessary for-the nursing i home, just 12 miles from the Seabrook nuclear power plant. I Instead, Stello advised, resident should'be left'in place l during a nuclear accident and be given potassium iodide to drink to saturate their thyroids. Comley's outrage at'Stello's suggestions' led _him to-found We The people, a non-profit nuclear power fact finding organization based in Rowley, Mass. In the' course of 'his investigations into the NRC's callous attitude toward elderly and disabled people'he uncovered-that tens of' thousands of counterfeit, substandard valves, piping materials', circuit breakers have been built into more than_ half =ofLU.S. nuclear power plants. (This was noted in New York Times" article of' 8/4/89 enclosed). The NRC downgraded. safety-standards-so nuclear utilities would not have to= replace the dangerous i materials. Comley's efforts to publicize the NRC's-1 irresponsibility led him into his current troubles with the agency. Main Office: flos 277. Rowlen MA 01969,(508) 948 7959 A mn profa. tai nempi orsamuuan '~ 50 Court St.. Plymouth. M A 02361 (50M) 746 9300 % tim Prc. til& 14A1 %. N w w,,,hin " m D C ywu( (202) r.m } OllNes $ & 6, 3 lhmt St., L oneutd. Nll 03301 (603) 228 9484

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L: ll 1 3 i Ke.w toIk Timea, March 18, 1988 Comley gave U.S. Attorney-Rudolph Guiliani information on counterfeit, substandard materials-built-into nuclear. plants. L i 1-St.ephe_n p_omley tait _pr i_o 11.S, NRC yigior s_tello,: July;18,' E 1988 Comley asked-when the counterfeit materials problem was-first discovered 1by the-NRC. 1 U.uS NE9.Tho_ mas Murl e.y I,e_t_t_er.to S.tsphen CsomLtI, August-15, 2 1988 Hurley-states the.NRC first learned ofLthe counterfeit materials problem January 17, 1988. In May-1988.the NRC told nuclear plant owners about the problem and ordered them'to find and replace substandard materials. SI.*Ph.en Q_gmlsy ketteg tp Ryes _i_d_e_ni Reagan, August.15, 1988 e Comley requested a meeting with President Reagan and stated there are people within-the NRC willing to-H ^ confidentially inform him of.NRC actions which deliberately l jeopardize the public. 1 0,s. RRg Thp. mas Rutl.ty Le_ tier _s.t.g $_tspAnn Comley, ' october 4, 1988 i Hurley dismissed.several safety concerns specific to Seabrook Station. He explained why the NRC cancelled orders to nuclear plants to find and replace substandard materials:. L a utility-commissioned engineering analysis concluded the NRC-could lower safety standards so the materials would not require replacement. 1 The pai_lz M.ews, october 27, 1987 Comley attended a Republican Inner Circle. gathering, unfurled.a We The People banner and handed.it to President Reagan. At the same. time he gave the President a letter-detailing NRC policies of covering up information like the - r counterf eit materials-issue, thus endangering the public. Boston Herald, December 10, 1988 t Counterfeit piping materials, tested and passed by the j Seabrook utility and the NRC, failed un independent lab test. ?

j c 1 o i 1 l l 0 ] RDRARn Glpha, August 18, 1988; Tht-Daily News, August 19, I 1988 Comley, asked for and was refused peradssion to fly a ~ banner over the Republican NationalLConvention at the Superdome. The banner read, " Hey George',.Stop Chernobyl ~; Here." 99R.c_otd M9nt.tpx, December 9, 1987 ~ We The People also tried to arrange and was refused-permission.to fly a' banner near the White House-duringithe ( Gorbachev summit. [ The Hampion Union, October 16, 1989 , We The People erected a billboard near Seabrook Station visible from a major interstate reading, " DANGER, Seabrook Nuclear Zone, No Evacuation Possible." Tit DAllI EtwA, December 27, 1989 The Mass. Civil Liberties Union won Comley the right to i keep the billboard in place. I HIRA Presa Enlease, December 1, 1969; 'Inside ER9,. December 18, 1989 The Washington, D.C. based Nuclear Information Resource Service, in collaboration with We-The People, called on i concerned citizens around the U.S. to erect billboards saying, " Congress, Protect U.S. Democracy,' Investigate the. NRC." Enclosed are other articles of interest: + Es.nhinatsn tost, September 18, 1986 " Fighting for the n survival of the Unfit" Wapling_ ton P_9.s_t, February 28, 1989 "Zzzzip It-A Liberal Has-His Day on The Morton Downey Jr..Show" l York Co.unty poas.t Star, June 21, 1989 " Nuclear Power Watchdog Group Brings Crusade to Where President Bush Lives" l J.ournal Trib.une We_ekend, September 2,1989 Confiscation of banner which reads, "Mr. Bush, When Chernobyl Happens Here They Won't Evacuate Me." from President Bush's-summer home in Maine. I

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1 sitions he allegedly had with a. .rict court several weeks ano al,n, ' fedsralnuclearofficiaL owine the novernment to collee' =c..'I' i. In a ruling issued Wednesday, the first poruon on tas unes owet T.j = the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7y comsey. ne saia sne m u. woi. t-ma been nanaea over to ine v.s..es l 1 ' First Circuit refused to overturn a g: /' alower court ruling that Stephen 31arshal's ollce nor execuuor. B. Comley comply with a sub- "u svious y we re aiways riopekg,d ful w

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_the subpoena wruen ooin tne ais.me i ITISUNFORTUNATET$[ECOURTSDONOT ulatoryCommission, The NRC claims that ' omley trict e urt ana sne court or a H E9 CHALLENGE THE NRC LIKE THEY'HAVE ME, C the owner of a Rowley nursing Deals" have amrmea. i eva==mz gg THE JUDGES SAIDEI HAVE TAILED TO h7ne' con mleys le al battle Mh thN PRODUCE CONCLUSIVEsEVIDENCE THAT THI' i a o at o NRC stems ha had with a top NRC ofHeial. m conversations 3 y' the agency claims he recorded,,.i i N'.C'INVESTICATION IS BEING CONDUCTE!:, Cimley, citing his first amend. IN BAD FAITH. who$ subYe 0 BOTH:TRE APPEALS AND: DISTRICT COURT!, f NN i ora NR w er '* has refused to turn over the tapes or nal agency probe. The NRC seyty,k., HAVE DENIED FY ATTORNEY'S POTIONS cven to acknowledge he has them. It needs the tapes to deterinine if . SEEKING HEARINGS ALLOFINC.DIFCOVERY . TAs a result, he is facing contempt Fortuna Mosed conndentialu,,' l

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s th t tbub k.: HOPCANWEPRODUCE:THEEVIDENCETID'l i: wh h to s e tot $1 more thaf flu Co el 1 890,000 poena was issued against him bei i SAY'WE NEED WHEN THEY DENV.US THE: cause f criticism he levelled at-CHANCE? In a sharply worded press re- ,12:se, Comley said he would con-fte NRC Chief of StafTVictorg g .y.HE APPEALS JUDCES ALSO: RULED THE N1 r tinue to defy the NRC subpoena. He has also pointed to com$ l HAS SHOWN IT HAS'A.COFPELLINO NEED L- "The subpoena violates my ments from several congressmen'> FOR'THE INTOPFATION,.IN ORDEPTO I 8 court judges not the NRC judge sonal reasons. ' r POTECT PUBLIC SAPETV, ANDFASNO0",l ex re si n ' h r t e ed ra probe against Fo una d MEANS OF'0BTAINING.IT.1 have any evidence at all to show In seeking to overturn the subN Y.' THAT'S NOT TRUE EITHER. THET' COULIM f ' that public safety is endangered, poena.Comley's attorneyclaimedlj '/I FUT PE.ON TFE. STAND AND ItPILL'TELL' ? ' t e$eo le fty to he h d yd THE TRUTH. I'THINK THAT'S?JUST WPA.^ ton the o e au Comley's attorney, Ernest C. probe against Fortuna was anoti.?! '$.i THE NRC DOES-NOT'WANTJTO' HEAR. H:dley, said he was still review. He also asserted that the sub.$ ,+l vated by " bad faith." THE NRC HAVE NOT ONLY RATIONALIZED -ing the decision. He said his ell. ie

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Gnt,s options include asking the poena would infringe on his Arst's court to reconsider its decision, amendment right to freedom of. EVACUATION PLAN,iTHEY HAVE NOW-4 'cr requesting the U.S. Supreme association, and expose to retallad, CONVINCED THE COURTS,ON THE 200TH-Court to hear the matter, tion those who provide informam.' ANNIVEPSARY -0F THE BILL OF RICPTS T1-Asked whether his cHent faced tion to Comley's organizationc rejectedy'a J MY LIBERTV 0F ASSOCIATION'IS IN EPF1 ' imprisonment now that his ap-The appeals court peal had been rejected, lladley both arguments. le. EyCM WEN I ANM M ME. ,1, .a 0F THE NRC. IN ESSENCE, THET TORE '. 2 THE CONSTITUTION U'. PE PILL PROVIDE TPIS PRECEDENT SETT: . DECISION UPON REOUEST. PLEASE CALL (508)948-7959...

i 4 Orr:CI A1. L'SE ONLY i,y a..w,('. ' L 04v1740 87AT58 - I NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMINION mAenssestese. o. 4. stees r ...'^ ' October 18,'1999 e 59 MEMORANDUM FOR: Chaizzan Carr Commissioner Roberta ', l, Ceemisstoner. Rogers-4 J coenissioner Curtiss l l h }h) l(' FROMs '~ l lan:8. Rosenthal \\. s SUSJECT: SUPPLEMr.NT TO INTERIN RSPORT Oy INVESTIGATION.(09-03) l ~.) In his October 13,.1989, article.in the 49.1 ~ addressed to the hearing the previous day. 7:E. Rostaa er subconnittee, -Matthew Wald revealed that, l S :4.- interv ew,P Mr. Fortuna had' stated' that'.*Mr. Cen&ep had>, sa; m l provided important safety informatio was cultivating:the men as -a source.n and. that he. ;PortunaL j '36

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g,.. s. f I found' this representation meet (intercettag.c 'per, at 1~ ~ ne time during the eatended March 22, 1989,; invest &gst&es- '1 i /> .1 1 - interview.ef:Mr..Fortuna wes there the -alightaat on his part that he:-- or, ladeed, anyone ease ta egeasy 1 -- had received iniportant:information irem Mr.. CSS 18F. 98-i the contrary, t4 ward the conclusion of the interview No.... i Chidakel (who was'partacapating:in the interview along with ,349 Ms. Cyr and as)' opened up the following.line.ef &ags&Eys? MS. CEIDARE1,3 ?I would like, to put the question-once and for all'.. Rave you ever obtained any crucial information provided to you by Cenley l which pertained to official NRC Batters 7 Eawe you-ever obtained any crucial information-frea Camley - _about anything within the.NRC jurisdietion? Anything that you would consider important information? ~' _._ \\$ -1 TER WITNES$ (Fortuaals Like a violation about.a p[O h! plant? v M5. CRIDAREL: Anything.that is important. f0 s TME WITNESS ' He has given as infessation het I ~~~ i MS. CRIDAREL: You what? I'm sorry, i setidn't I hear you. ~ nrtwiDL WILMS 3 ^

g 2 TER WITNESS: I:was aware of it. It's A&ke he-wee-feeding-backs newspaper articles ana things like; .that.

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M8.=CNIDAREL. Nave.-you ever w&thholdsany-information:fron your,supervisora that you think-in hindsight should'have-been~ prev &ded to.theat' 7 THE WITNESSe Goe I don't.L I'm trylagl to th&akief - 'l i 5 all the tissa and the coatsets-and the.ta&k&ag and. =i what' have you.: But I'm confident that-18 there ( waslanything that:ILthought was important. ~ MA. GREEN 8 PUN [Mr. Fortuna's attorney):.You maan s ~ really material.and unknownLto anybody~except Mr., Coaley who then reported it to you? ~ ]," THE N2TNE88: Yes.k 1 .~ Moodless to say, had Mr. Fortuna.aeknowledged rese&vang~ ~ ~.... - significant safety intoaination from Casley that was aet:

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aiready known within the ageney, the meat question:50814. - -l have sought to determine whether that=information 9188 pese84' on to other NRC oificials (and, -if so,:when and, to Wheat. The Wald article does not elearly :stateiubsther.Mr.. Fortuna was asserting'that the *iaportant. safety- ,o information* was p within the-agency.gevided to him or,, rather, to settene S&Se -- 1 Insof ar: as ' 21as aware, however, Mr.: + 1 1 4 Coeley has never supplied:anyone'within the agemey with new j intormation iound 'to be of; peasible satety significanes. 3a i thia-ect.nection, in a press release issued on October la. e 4 1989,:on the occasion of the1Roatas People of the United States, Inc.,.yer hearing, We the-(thenorganisation 80804e4 by Er. Conley and of which he' as-the executivo directort claimed (at 3)- that it. was responsible - for bringing.toi the ' BBC's attention the fact that over half:of the austear pesos 1 plants in the United states had counteriett substandard asterials built in them. The press releaseiturther: 1 a maintained (at 3-4) that the organisation had forcediths. issuance of Bulletin 88-05 (May 6, -1988).-confirming that-fast. In a telephone conversation yesterday, however, B.- 4 Transcript of March 22, 1989, Portuna interview;at 174-75. I Mr. Pouchard may possibly be able at some potat to obtain claritication from Mr. Wald.

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m o r' **s n esames to these eat us== 1.e., thee tae, ageney had ' learned af the senateriett parts problem item ether sources and had not issued Sulletin 88-05 beesose et l Mr. Camley and his organisation. i -N !' ^' Mr. edrtunai, repre,g eireamstances,"!"de' met M 11es tha In the foregeli ~ o. e.tation to Mr. vsto cas report.d by the: latter) counters to any extent the findings and esastusions set forth in my September 31 interin resort. On the one-hand, if Mr. Fortune meant to suggest shot he had seesived,c-I. safety significant inferastica grea Mr. Conley, these-l questions remains why did he met se acknowledge ta the.- March 22 Anterview ane wbst.use was sada.et that information? Da the 4ther hand, if he was asse .that ~~ Mr. Conley had provided.such infosination.to sene official or esployee. other than himself,.the still i unresolved eguestions beoenes what internatten and to whom was it furnished? During the course et ay investigatten, as ~ J Person (Mr. Fortuna included) has averred that Mr. Canley ij has given the commission worthwhile information and, emee-- again, it appears.that the claim to that ef test samtsined La his organisation's press release is not aoeurate. ec: Martin G. Malseh, 010 ~ j- ~ \\ 5 0 V IL l e p,<r s xc p*y**fI Y ( ( 4 '3 e s m....

1 McWUS & WDA6M N COMMITTER ON INTERIOR = 1 ANDINSULAR APPAlRS " b "*". WA McWIIGplWRIIENTAW88 wasmuetsu,se 8881e O W E mpsh ., o am mesp L L ( Decester 13, 1989 The Menorable Kenneth carr Choisinen i U.S. Nuoleer Regulatory Comatosion Washington, D.C. 20858 Dear Mr. Chairmant i I have received a copy of an Cotober 18, 1949 memorendum from sudge Rosenthat to the comatosion which states, assag other. things, that: During the course of my investigation, no n (Mr. Fortuna included)-has averred that Mr. er has g&Ven the commission worthwhile infestation and, ease again, it appears that the clate to that' effect sentained in his organi=tson'.,r.. c.1= = is not.ea. n t., This statement appears to conflict with Judge Rosenthal's offidavit in support of a request that'the United states sistrist court enforce the NRC's subpeona requiring Mr. Conley to turn ever alleged tapes on which telephone eenversations between him and Mr. Fortuna had been recorded. In partieular, Judge Rosenthal's effidavit states thet ha' auspected Mr._ Fortuna Say 9 have received relevant information frea Mr. Conley thet NRC C A) -regulations required Mr. Fortuna to report to his superier. Please provide an explanetten for the apparent eentredsstien i between sudge Rosenthal's Oeteber 18 memorenden and his affidavit \\ \\ J oubmitted to the U.S. Distriot Court for Messachusette as a000 es /g \\ possible and no later than Decenter 19, 1989. \\ Moreover, should the esplanation reiste to Judge Rosenthal's statemente in his affidavit that he believed Mr. Portuna may have p divulged confidentiti information to Mr. Cesley, I would sek that i s..m - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ~ " -' **-*- """'~~*- * ' " " ' ~ ~ ~

-{ l;Cgg. '.nw .v...,: - - w. . }- l', you-esp 1&&n this beste for this sesertsen, especially in lig the evidense thet Mr. Fertuna had in feet not divuttet su 'infessation. Atee, I would itke to add that !-find part&outerly tr l of the NRC's untti-the Onsley subpoene is enevered an 18 to tho' resent. determination to great s fu11 powerSince any health and safety-inf Conley's tapes might sentain seuld 11hely relate to-8ethreek,t to se ecabreak foottity. d it scene evi en long his chief eencern,hould be eleted if MRC hae determined that comley's espos sentain no health ans. safety inform Fortuna investigation s suon-time se Mr. Conley enevers his outpoene.. I would ties-f appresteee your addresetag this matter, ~ e y, .y

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~ January 22, 1990 Honorable-Peter H. Kostmayer, Chairman Subcommittee on oversight:and Investigations-Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs U.S. House of Representatives Washington, D.C. 20515 -re:-CommentsofWethePeople,inc.. 4 i Seabrook Station Nuclear Power Plant 'j

Dear Chairman Kostmayer:

a on; behalf of the above referenced client, I'am submitting!to your 1 Subcommittee information relating _ to seabrook Station-in Seabrook N.H. and to the failure of'the. Nuclear: Regulatory' j Commission ("N.R.C.") to address : safety conditions at Seabrook~ l and other nuclear power plants throughout -thei country.: As I am 1 sure you are awcre, the executive: director. of We the ' People, Stephen B. Comley, has received ' considerable, attention u for. his failure to comply with a subpoena missued by ithe ' N.R.C. in - the course, of its investigation' of the activities - ofi Roger Fortuna,- understand the Subcommittee has taken - the view that: gation. - I f ormer deputy director of the of fice~ of 'Investi it would;be inappropriate to hear testimony 'from Mr.J Com: 2y while he is subject to a court order finding-him in contemptifor. failure to comply-with the subpoena. However I ' hope c the Subcognittee's view will not prevent.it= from review'ing the enclosed <information i to determine whether :it is relevant to any ' oversight functions 1 the subcommittee may have with respect to the N.R.C. j I note that on December 12, 1989 you sent a letter'to N.R.C. Chairman Kenneth'Carr asking administrative-judge-Alan Rosenthal. j to explain an apparent contradiction-between statements made. to the Commissioners and an: affidavit-presented to the U.S.: District Court f or the District of Massachusetts: in: 1the 1 subpoena-enforcement proceedings. Also, in. that1 same letter, you1 asked i the Commission to explain the inconsistency in - keeping the - Fortuna investigation open, given' Judge Rosenthal's determination that Mr. Comley had never supplied significant'information to the: N.R.C., and its recent determination. to; grant a : license'to the-- Seabrook Facility,'given the fact that any information Mr. Conley has would likely relate to seabrook. ~ Naturally, we were:quite disappointed with the response.of Chairman Carr and Judge Rosenthal to your inquiries. The subpoena proceedings have now gone on for some ten. months-and not once has the Agency asked Mr. Comley if he has any concerns related to the safety.of the Seabrook-Plant. q

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(. l w 1 Chairman Kostmeyer -January 22, 1990 l page.two-i The actions of the N.R.C. in pursuingj its " vendetta" against'Mr. Fortuna and, in - the process, attempting-to discredit Mr. Comley_- raise serious questions about the real motives ' of - the Agency. - Based'on the previo.us reports of Senator Glenn and Representative Sharp, I think-its is f air to say that 'I am not ; the only one who has come to^ this conclusion.- Unfortunately,- the U.S.' District Court and.the U.S Court of Appeals for the First Circuit'did not share this view ' based' on the summary nature of the enforcement proceedings. Both Courts indicated that it was necessary under.' the law to enforce the subpoena based.on a showing that the; documents sought were-reasonably described and werec sought.. for-some arcJuably legitimate purpose. The nearly : impossible burden. of provingLbad falth in issuance of the subpoena was placed upon-Mr. Comley-without-the right to conduct discovery orito an= j evidentiary hearing. As a lawyer, I find the summary nature of administrative enforcement proceedings-to be entirely foreign to any concept of-due process. Since courts are likely to continue using summary proceedings for enforcement of administrative subpoenas-based on-the notion that Congress intended summarytenforcement proceedings, it may be an area which your asubcommitteeJ should explore to determine if it-is appropriate to give federal administrative agencies such sweeping authority to trample the rights of individual citizens.- Certainly, I do'not argue for the proposition that every subpoena enforcement proceeding should be encumbered with years of discovery, trial, and-appeals.

However, I do not believe that administrative agencies of: the federal government should be free' to intrude :upon: the ' lives:- of private citizens merely based on the conclusory statement of an agency employee that-he or she has reason to believe'that theJsubpoena should be enforced.

Judge Rosenthal has never been: asked to explain precisely what in the transcripts provided by Mr.-Ellison i led-him to conclude that either Mr. Fortuna-had divulged confidential information to Mr. Comley or Mr. Comley had provided significant information to Mr. Fortuna which was noti transmitted to other components of the N.R.C. I suspect that unless your Subcommittee or the N.R.C.'s new inspector general demands a cogent explanation, we shall all remain' mystified as to theibasis for Judge Rosenthal's conclusion. As indicated in the introduction to this letter, I am-providing certain information developed by We the People concerning-Seabrook and other nuclear power plants. I think the-information raises two independent questions: 1) how safe are the nation's nuclear power plants? and, 2) how vigorous is the N.R.C. in pursuing public health and safety questions? The first document provided is en analysis of the potential use of counterfeit parts. in the Seabrook Station. Also provided,is an analysis of the use of counterfeit and substandard materials in plants throughout-the United States,0whrch previously was sent-

~ c: t-l l l ' Chairman Kostmayer January 23,'1990' L ~Page three - f to all members of Congress. Finally, I provide'the endorsements-of a ' call for independent investigation of the N.R.C. by, We the People f rom.'some of your colleagues -as well.- as otheri public 1 interest organizations.. I hope this-information proves-useful.. If.I'.can. be of1 any further assistance, please feel free to contact me. t ? L Very truly yours, I nos C. H cc: Stephen Comley. enclosures P 4 9 e 1 I f L 6 ) f e* ~~ w ,...L, eu.

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/ NUCLEAR Rf,GULATORY COMMIS$10N [ g . WaM8deTok, o, c. some g e e.,, j*. Deceeer 19,1989- ~ && f The Honorable Peter H. Kostmayer, Chalman: Subcommittee'on Oversight and Invastigations Cognittee on Interior and' insular Affairs - 4 United States House of Representatives G Washington, D.C. 20615 . Dear Chaiman Kostasyers 12,'1983, relating'to an' alleged In response to your letter dated December conflict between the views expressed in Judge Alsn Rosenth41 s October 18 memorandum and his statements :1ertis affidavit submitted to the U.S. District Court for Massachusetts,;I-am forwarding-Jud0e Rosenthal's j memorandum dated December 14.. Judge Rosenthal concludes-that-there is no ? such conflict and provides a detailed explanation supporting that: s conclusion. With.fespect to'your suggestion that the~5eabrook operatingiticanse bei withheld untti Mr. Conley. answers his subpoena,'! can inform you that a. full power license may not be issued at this tise and will-not be issued until the Commission concludes its immediate effectiveness review and-i determines that) full power licensing-is appropriate. As Mr. Rosenthal's: memorandum suggests, there is simply a possibility that the information Mr. Camley is currently withholding, contrary to judicial mandate deals < ) with safety-related astters. While that possittlity must continue to bei explored, there is at present no basis to conclude that str. couley's-tapes would disclose safety concerns reisting go the Seatreet pleat that l the NRC staff has not already. considered.- l The Seabrook adjudicatory licensing proceeding-inc)udes no open issue related to Mr. 'Comleythowever, any-infomation pmvided to the' staff j will be appropriately considered'in its assessment of plant reediasss. The Commission will receive that assessaant-in a briefing to be held no L earlier than January 18.-1990 and consider it before-making its 4 determination on license issuance. Sincerely, c; n... 1+mu,G.. g'D i Kenneth M. Carr Enclosure L Memorandum from Alan S. Rosenthal i to Chairman Carr dated Dec. 14,1989 cca The Honorable Barbara Yucanovich l

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CONGRESSMAN ROS19thYER'S' DECEMBER 12, 1989' LETTER L I am in re'ceipt of a copy-of Congreseman Kostasyer'8 December 12, 1989 letter to you, In that letter, Mr. Kostmayer points to what he deems' to be an-apparent ceAfiist. ~ i between a. statement in my october. 18, 1989 asacrandum to the Commissioners and a certain representation 'in' the June.19, 1989 affidavit that I supplied to the United states District Court for the District of Maseechusetts in the'presseding l eeeking enforcement of the subpoene issued to Stephen 3 1 Conley. In actuality, no such conflict-eststs. Indeed, the-only poseible confliet disclosed in the;cetaber 18 J assorandum relates to the -testimony given by. meger A.- Fortuna during his formal. interview by ass en March' 22, 1989 -- en interview-subject to 18 U.S.C.1001 (the prevision of the Federal' criminal code concerned with, ameag other. i things, the. making of falso statements or representatiets it' i connection with any matter.within the jurisdictica of_at. i agency of the United States). 'My reasons for these-4 conclusions are as follows: 1 My october 19 memorandua' to the ' casaissionere wee-prompted by an article in-the October 13, 1999 edities st-the New York Times, written.under the by-line:of Matthew-Wald. Addressed to the hearing ~ the previous day conducted by Mr. Kostmayer's subcommittee, the article revealed that, an an interview (presumably with Mr. Mald), Mr. Fortune. het stated that "Mr. Comley-had provided important safety information and that he (Fortunal was cultivating the ese se / a souzce.' 8[*5 I had found that-portion of the article to be most-troublesome. It was my impression.then, and it continues'to-be my impression today, that Mr. Wald to a reputable. bx reporter who would not misrepresent what he was told in ta interview. I thus had to assume that, in feet, the essenet in the Wald articia accurately reflected what Mr. Fortuna had stated in en interview follen,ing the - subcaussittee ( E: l'

t! q ui l d 2 a j .s hearing,- But, as 1 vent on : to explain in the-october! 18 ', memorandum, it was difficult tonsquare theostatement withL 3 Mr. Fortuna 's' testimony during the: March 22 interview ofE -- at leat.t if, (as. seessiquite. likely) Mr. Fortuna intend $ t to be understood by-Mr. Wald as asserting that gg was thel recipient of' Mr. comley's 'important safety information".* 4 t - For, as T noted in the October 18. memorandum," during: the < ; March 22. interview Mr. Fortuna had' disclaimed the obtain h of any worthwhilefinformation from Mr. Conley and my 1 investigatio n to date has not disclosed-the receipt of' anM such information;by other persons within the Commission. I I must add on tMs score that',1although not alluded in ay-October ISjmemorandum,. my concern regardiaq' the. Fortuna statement reported by Mr. Wald.was heightened:by- ) incident occurring on the-day of the? subcommittee. hearing - l Before the hearing commenced, I-had<.occaeten?to review-Mrc Fortuna's prepared testimony._ That review disclosed the: entirely inaccurate' statement in that preparedLtestimony... that I had sent a 1099~ tax form to Mr. Ellison ?in connectg 4 withJthe consultant payment he had received fros the. NRC1 that I had taken that. step 'only after [Il received press andcongressionalin Fortuna s attention.quiry." I: brought-the inaccuracy to 1, . believing. at: the time that' it - was inadvertent on his part and that he would: therefore welcor 1 the opportunit Unfortunately,y to correct his. prepared. testimony. - . I was totally wrong' in that belief. F4F ' f: correcting the error, Mr. Fortuna repeated ~it~ inL the 'ceert. .s 'of reading-his prepared testimony once -he took the wit e n ss, stand. In calling thisL o'the attention:of Mr. Rostmayer t my - own oral testimony later: in -the day, : was compelled te note my opinion that there was substantial doubt' that' Mr.. ' Fortuna was interested in putting the truth -before thec subconsittee. When I-read-Mr. Wald's : article the followir. day, a similar doubt arose 1 respecting Mr. Fortuna's testimony within the agency. 2. Against this background,LIlnow-turn to the clait, of an apparent conflict between the october it memorandum and my June 19 ef fidavit. That conflict is said by Mr. i Kostmayer to stem t' rom the statement at' the' conclusion of ' the memorandum that During the course of niy investigation, no person (Mr. Fortuna included) has averred. that Mr. Comley has given the Commission-worthwhile'intermetion and, once again,. it' appears that the elaam to that effect contained-in his organization's press rel*=se is not accurate.

- o n } 3-1 Tha, June 19 af fidavit.does;not contain a contrary [ ~ representation.. Nowhere;in that affidavit did I implyi le alone acate. explicitly, that-I had -in my possession the t 1 averment of Mr. : Fortuna or: any other interviewed person th! ' Mr. coaley had given the: commission worthwhile information Nor. have -I: made such a claim in any other document prepare', by me. In. my~ September 21 interim report, for emaapler I. explicitly observado (at page 54)1that "there is insufficie: evidence :in the existing record to mandate a findiae that i Fortuna improperly provises comley.with confidential-official information or improperly failed to pass om to-others in the NRC information supplied by.Conley* (emphasi in original). ? All that I statedEin my affidavit of' present relevaneo : is (at pages 3) -that I had *1istened to the recording of: the January 14,s1937 conversations..(between Messrs.:Portune ' and comley) and thad). reviewed'antranscript of that i recording. The recordingiled no to conclude that the employee [i.e., Mr.lFortunal na have disclosed sentitive and confidential NRC informat on to Mr. Conley and Jgr haver failed to disclose to'other. NRC officials relevant information that. hevhad; received from Mr. Conley* (emphasis - supplied). I fullyt stand-by that representation',' which was. made, of course, with full? awareness of-Mr. Portuaa's disclaimer in his March 122; interview.- :That dissiaimer wasi ; of: course, wholly. self-serving. (AsLnoted in my estaber 11-- memorandum, had Mr. > Fortuna' acknowledged that = he. had received significant'informationL free Mr. Camley, the nest question would _ have: sought to determine whether that information was-passed on to other NRC officials - (and fif.. so, when'and to whom).)'. As such, the disclaimer could not' have the:effect of negating the. impression left by the January 1987 Fortuna/Conley telephone: conversations.. Those conversations 1are= analysed in1 detail in ay September 21 interim 1 report :and, because both the casumissic. and Mr. Kostmayer have copies of that: report,-need not be. 1 rehearsed here. I wouldLsimply refer Mr. Rostanyer to the discussion at pages 56-62;of the report, which emplains why I concluded ~ (at page 59)r that,.notwithstanding Mr. Portuna' disclaimer (noted.at pages 47-48:of the report), 'the: Conley/Fortuna exchangestraise1the possibility.that Fortuna may have unjustifiably. withheld from others within the ERC information that had been supplied to him by Conley.' In that connection, I went'.on' d) to observe that while the January 1987 telephone:convers ions fell short "of converting the possibility of withheldLinformation~ inte a - reasonable certaantY that 'such occurred, they de give eause ' ' to inquire further (through the comley subpoena).' Cace

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3 Jj again', I 'have been given no cause to pu11' back from that. J observation -- which, to repeat,i rested-on 'the s content of the January 1987 telephone conversations:and not on;what 'an~ o

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In thase circumstances, the . purported. conflict between my June 19 affidavit and; thei 1 -October-18. memorandum (which did not even mention any. recorded:F not exist.9ttuna/Conley' telephone conversations)7 simply; door-3.: -2e obvioualy would-be inappropriate for me to.s i ~ . comment on Mr. Kostmayer's attempt to link teL the ggggggp)k proceeding my ' determination to-neep the Fortuna I a.avestigation open: until: the Camley.aubpoena,is: answered.'. Suffice-it to say,,,1 have-no apologies to offer::respoeting j my conviction that the investigation.should.-~not be closed-u until. that matter 1si resolved 2 a f t' well may. bei that Mr.' Fortuna (and-distressing. perhaps: othere)v find' thisi conviction 'to he. If. so,: there. is only Mr. Cenley. to iblems. Twel, federal courts have rejected outrightLhtstattacktoa the : validity-of the subpoena. Yet=Mr. Conley.contianae?hiei a l lawless disregard ~of the~ mandates ~ of these courts.< 2 find it both surprising:and regrettable'.that:the consera over the! treatment'of-Mr. Fortuna;has hot;been'assompanied.by a= condemnation of Mr. coaley's eenduct.

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u 1 1 y We The People l L of the. United States,Inc. Stop Chernobyl Herr } t IMMInnTI18In BEktuII l i DATE: THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1989 TIME: 9:30 A.M. LOCATION: 1324 LONGWORTH HOUSE OFFICE BUILDING t WASHINGTON, D.C., J PRESS CONTACT: . STEPHEN B. COMLEY, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR L, WE THE ' PEOPLE, INC. OF THE UNITED STATES 508-948-7959 OR 2553. On Thursday, October 12, 1989, Stephen B$ - Comley, Executive Director o; We The People, Inc. an anti-nuclear,. fact-finding' organization will attend the Oversight Hearing ;by Congressman. Kostmayer' on the Actions o. NRC Officials in the' Agency's Office of Inspector and Auditor-(OIA)'in: l its Investigation of Mr. Roger Fortuna, DeputycDirector of NRC's Of fict = of Investigations (01). Congressman Kostmayor has"' called on Mr. Roger _ Fortuna-, Deputy-Director of the Office of Investigations, NRC; Ms. Sharon'Connelly, former Director, Office of Inspector and Auditor, NRC; Mr. Victor Ste116 g Appointee-Assistant Secretary of Detease-Programs, Department of Eners,' Executive Director 'for Operations,.NRC;' Judge Alan Rosenthal,. former: Administrative-Law Judge of the NRC as well as others-to testify and answer questions. Conley recently sent letters to Congressman Kostmayor (see enclosed-copy) as well as to Congressman Sharp and Secretary of _ Energy Jesses Natkins in which he outlines his reasons of opposition to -the appointment of Victor Stello. D' mWe The People, Inc. headed by Conley, forced Victor Stello to finally admit in May,1988 that there are tens of thousands of; counterfeit substandard components in 59 U. S. nuclear plants in.the United States including.Seabrook. This was noted again.recently in New York' Times / article 8/4/89 (copy enclosed). Comley also: asked publicly for the resignation of Victor. $tello in. February, :1987 at which time l Stello / \\ confrented Comley'and they-exchanged: heated words. The NRC contends i their letter to comley dated August 15,'1988 that they first learned c' this troubling information:en' January 17, 1988. Comley contends this was a lie, They actually knew about this earlier as Conley gave-this information to President Reagan on October 26, 1987'. \\w Stello has been involved ini a six-month Congressional investigation of, slush fund he used to pay former nuclear worker Doug: Ellison for 1 incriminating evidence against an NRC ir.spector. Ellison was paid l $6,000.00. in cash by Stello's staf f f or testimony which implied that P 1 Inspector Roger Fortuna suppressed evidence of problems _at a nuclear i t plant. - 0VER. l Boa 277 Rowner, M A 01969,($0s) 946 7959 ^ * * * " " $0 Coun 59 Pigouth. M A 02361. (508) 7464300 -

_ ~ _ _ d j .i E. 4-i. l . r, j i ~ In a court case related to _ this matter, Stello _ has' f orced a subpoena,or Comley, as Ellison has stated that Comley allegedly possesses tapes =of 't c '),. conversations with Roger: C, Fortuna. Stello wants the alleged tapes and because'Coml'ey refuses to- : / comply with.the subpoena, has been fined thousands of. dollars; ($65,500.00 as of 10/11/89)tand faces' jail.. l Federal District Court' Judge Keeton ruled againstLcomley?s:argumentLthf4 the NRC lacks the authority to issue this' aubpoena. Comley! has.appeale r this decision and oral: arguments ' will be heard on November ;9,.- 1989. ini - the US Court of Appeals for the First.c ircuit in' Massachusetts.. ll c ~ 3 Stello's handling of the administrative investigation;includingjcomley:j subpoena has cast a cloud over.his White House' appointment to a. Department of ' Energy position where: he would? oversee cleanupTof ~ radioactive contamination at nuclear weapons plants.: Comley has charged that the NRC protects; nuclear > industry profits 'atu t expense of public health and safety. The agency" lowered safety. standards at nuclear power plants when it; discovered: that1st leas't-hal: ; the plants in this -country have been built with counterfeit substandar: valves, circuit breakers, piping materials andef astaaers. Under-suele: industry pressure the NRC withdrew its order that:auclearcutilitieszfi and replace the counterfeit substandard defectivoimaterials. i Conley said, "In its arrogance, the NRC'is.notEenlyJendangering the. satety of the American people, it..is bu11 dosing:my rights; as;an Almeric citizen. In conscience I cannot comply-with.thel agency's: unconstitutional order.- It is like me.being: ordered brithe: court-to,' work with the Mafia'atter I have witnessed one of'their murders. If' t < i NRC gets away with intimidating me,.then itu willL see.it.can stifle ett opponents of its deadly policies." Through;Ste11o's actions,.he has t proven the avenues which whistleblower; groups like-We The~ People, Inc, must provide must remain open and not closed off byLthe-NRC_or.the courts. "Now my constitutional right to, due process has also been violated," Comley said. "I'm discovering just how thin our-Constitutional 1 protections run when the might of the nuclear industry and its federat bedfellows are challenged," Comley; stated. Comley has joined with many other organisations concerned with nuclear power plant saf ety to oppose' Mr. Stello's appointment to the Departmet of Energy. "Mr. Stello has-shown himself to be's-great danger to thou, American people. His appointment is irresponsible," Conley concluded. i y m. __________________.__,__,,,_.__,._..,,,,g.

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We The People, Inc. d of the United States 1 Srnp Chenwhylllcrc FOR IMMEDIATE RELEAS'E MARCH 17, 1988 l PRESS CONTACT: STEPHEN B. COHLEY, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR i 617-940 7969 l THE NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION (NRC), IN COLLUSION WITH THE' M R INDUSTRY, HAS DELIBERATELY ENDANGERED THE PUBLIC'1 MEALTH AND 5AFETY. THE AGENCY HAS CONSISTENTLY IGMoRED OR EUFPRESSED EVIDENCE FROM WE THE PEOPLE AMD 0THER souncta MMicM j PROVES UNBAFE CONDITIONS EXIST AT NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS FRON MEM YORK AND NEW ENGLAND TO THE WEST COAST. M ggyrg /A/yp4FW"O [ T*D ' n TC. ATTORNEY FOR }' HE SOUTHERN RUDOLPH W. GIULIANI, THE U. S. DISTRICT OF NEW. YORK, IS UNDERTAHING AN INVESTIGATION OF THIS SITUATION, SEGINNING WITH THE SHOREHAM, LONG ISLAND, NUCLEAR PLANT. GIULIANI IS SEST HNOWN FOR HIS INVESTIGATION AND SUCCESSFUL PROSECUTION OF IVAN BOESHY. 7 ILE TH I PEOPLE HAS CONVEYED SUBSTANTI AL INFORMATI0M TO GIDLIAMI i FRGAR UNG FALSIFICATION OF NUCLEAR PLANTS SAFETY 00CDNENTS, i iMLLU CON SETWEEN THE NRC AND NUC ', EAR VENDORS EUPPLYING i l EJSST LNDARD NATERIALS TO NUCLEAR 'LANTS, AND INSPECTORS WHO HAVE a3NOR':D. RAMPANT DRUG USE AND SALES AT NUCLEAR PLANTS. WE TNE PEOPLE IS MEETING WITH GIULI ANI NEET NEEN TO GIVE HIM NORE INFORMATION ON NRC AND NUCLEAR INDUSTRY. CRIMINAL MISCONDUCT. STEPHEN 8. COMLEY, DIRECTOR OF WE THE PROFLE SAID TODAY, 'WE ARE i PLEASED THERE IS FINALLY SOME ACTION BEING TAMEN To-REVEAL THE. NRC's COVERUPS. WE ARE HOPEFUL THIS WILL LEAD 70 AN INDEPENDENT INVESTIGATION OF THE NRC. THE NUCLEAR INDUSTRY, THE NRC AND YES, SOME POLITICIANS STILL REMAIN DEAF AND BLIND.70 THE NEEDS i 0F THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. WE THE PEOPLE BELIEVE GIULIANI HAS THE ABILITY, THE SENSE AND THE RELENTLESS DETERMINATION IT WILL TARE TO PROVE THE NRC AND THE NUCLEAR INDUSTRY HAVE DELIBERATELY JEOPARDIZED THE SAFETY OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE". WE THE PEOPLE, INC. OF THE UNITED STATES WILL HEEP THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ABREAST OF THE FACTS DURING THE INVESTIGATION THROUGH 00R OFFICES IN ROWLEY, MASS. (MAIN OFFICE), WASHINGTON, D. C. l i (NATIONAL PRESS BUILDING), CONCORD, N. H., AND PLYMOUTH, MASS. i WE ARE CURRENTLY NEGOTIATING FOR OFFICES IN MANHATTAN AND SAN E DIEGO, CALIF. 30 i OVER fios 277 National Preis Bidr. Of0cti 5 & 6 Ro.le3. M A 0199 IJ & E Sti. NV hic. W4 3 l':esisnt St. vil') C41 *PL % Jiheig'

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.. talks e [ folk Cmanly off6c6als said today that Unned ,, tp o, , i ep , States Attorney Rudolph W.Giulianihas fue Mr. Prospect and Mr. Blass said they le an esolve tu , erleinal allegattens that the Lang Island,- 'I had arranged a meettig enh Mr. Giu. Mr.Tese sets l'g'But s herets the last four sneaths, been _ I . + ' llant, who, they said, "was entreinely in the Witeng Company has repeatedly hed to interested in what we had to say." J wouM es take a hasdtests ' I Since then, Mr. Prospect aald, the ! it and se de we." regulatory commisstons and filed false docasments with the panels, prosecutor's office has "enthusiastl* ~ cally and vigorously" pursued an in. SooMag to'Rooseer Resums i The efftenets also mand the investigetten by g Mr. Giuhant, the United States steersey.tn vestigation, reviewmg the eeunty's Mr. Pressect ased he had to * ' documentary evidence and interview. announce Mr. Giuliants s.' i Manhattan, also deals with acuam Wy die Federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission. t kooause he felt H was time te peQ4 Ing severalofits witnesses, Withstanding an Eartleguake " *""P""I '"' N Suffolk County has filed t i against Linco, charging it wat Suffolk County, in a suit filed last A rew J. Maloney the' Unised'. ing rate increases to pay for its Shorghern year, said it had assembled documents States Attort tyin Brook}yn, reopended, nuclear plant. Several of the county a we. that show Lilco's officers of ten misrep. angrily to Mr. Prespost'seanneumes.e-resented how quickly and at what cost. 6denufted, said today that they had been they could complete Shoreham as they 'l ment. "We are awaftsf RAr.,PM. . osanos, speaking on the condition they BR he .= queettoned by members of Mr. Giuliant's sought special rate increases from the t staff. state's Public Service Commiasson. ) The county also charges that Lilco O. Akhaugh it remained unclear what Mrs i had falsified a report on Shersham's. g i ability to withstand an earthquake.14 I 4 Ts. a. ' i g a em-1 Its sun, the county charges that Lilos R a... ' "Y~Lil 21..l T. E w l and the Stone & Webster Engarte% man. g in tes t. a o ,a,, is " s 7 Corporation, Lileo's construcuen . a r,;Tr:ym3',[3,P TVT ri. ager for Shoreham.had altered a study TNiTer r T and filed the report with,the nuchear

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t ) we Ine t'eople j -of the United States i Swp ChernobylHere l 4 I l f { July 18, 1988 1 .\\ &0-Mr. Victor Stello, Jr. Executive Director for Operations United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission [ j Washington, D. C. 20555 l 1 Dear Mr. St'ellos { I'm writing to you with regard to NRC Bulletin No. 98-05, dated f 'May 6,- 1988, concerning the "none'anforming matsrials' supplied by-certain. piping supply companies. Although the NRC has identified a potential problem in at least 30 j plants, it appears that this matter is still under investigation so by the Agency. Obviously, it would'be premature for me to esament i 4 'on the Agency's investigation until.auch time as it has made some-or all of its findings public. Given the NRC's eenelusten that- ' potential generic safety implicatio'ns' entst at the plants identified', and possibly others, it.is hoped that the beeney will-9 j vigorously pursue this matter with all ressureas at its disposal. i l ! de believe, however, tisat the revelattens in MRC Sulletta De. l t 88-05 raise a serious guestion that need met assit the esteens of l Y the Agency's investigation to warrant a respeace.. That.geesties. regards when knowledge of these potential safety problems wee first brought to the attention of the NRC and.what settens were-2 taken as a result and, finally, when those actions were taken. I am sure it will cena as ne surprise to you that the publie hine less than 100 percent confidence-in the NRC. I believe that you are now provided with a unique opportunity to reinstill publis l confidence in the wake of these revelations. First, that l confidence any be restored by conducting a thorough investigation of the situation and promptly taking any and all necessary corrective actions. Second, I believe you should diseless to,the publie when these eencarns:first came - to your attention and what. actions you took with regard to'the information. I i{ ! leek forward to your response. O3h j, ,,,. 3.., en 3. Cooley Es utive D.irector ,,. m..; ' A tes !??. Restry. MA 01989. (300) 9461999 39 Caen Si., Plymsesh. WA 02M t. (617) 14H100 Neeenal Prem SMS le & F. St.. N.W.. Washagnsm. D.C. Met $ Ofhan 0 0 6 8 Pts eisisca ((SJM30dCRE)CO3 mu i

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j 'I Youn letter of Ju.ly-18, 1988, requested information concerning NRC Bulletin. * 'l No.* 88-05, " Nonconforming Materia 1s' Supplied by Pipjng.Supplie .at Williamstown, j hew Jersey." You askee when knowledge of these potential safety problems was i first -brought to the attention of the NRC4.yhet actions were taken as a, result, and when those actions were taken. The issue was first brought,to the NRC's attention curing the week of anuary 17, by a telephone call from a material supplier, t.ater that week, personnes-J,gg,,NRC's Vencor Inspection Branch conducted an inspection at Piping Supplies,. 1 rom Inc. On February 24. 1988, NRC, subpoenaed documents from PSI,and WJM and began } an intensive record review. On May 6.1988, NRC issued Bulletin No. 88 05 and: on June 15, 1988, NRC issued Supplement 1. to.the. bull.etin. Bulletin 88,05 require l licensees to review their records for procurements from PS! and WJN and to -. conduct tests of any ' procured materials. NRC allowed continued operetten of i i i S.s

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' may.have been installed.are required to be.hydrostaticallytested at 1.25 to i i 1.50. times design pressures which provides additional.assurancer of the,... structural integr.ity of these. systems.7re,11minary safety analyses of aua11able i I 1 data indicates no innediate safety concerns. / So far, licensees have conducted in situ hardness tests on over 1300 pieces of R the suspect material and destructive tests of about 60 samples. Engineering analyses have been perfomed to demonstrate that material that does not meet i certain hardness values is still acceptable.for its application in nuclear. power plants. All these activities by the industry are being coordinated by i the Nuclear Management and Resources Council (NUMARC). In a letter dated. I July 25, 1968, NUMARC stated that the results of these activities demonstrate l that there is no public health and safety concern. On August 3, 1988, NRC issued Supplement 2 to sulletin 88-05, temporarily suspencing the requirements 4 i ' of Bulletin 88-05 and Supplement i for operating plants while the available ' data is being assessed. After completing the review, NRC will decide whether the requirements should be reinstated or whether other actions are warranted. Sincerely, l ) O \\$ Ib Wef'fR,0E. 'OQ kWkl AbhD1' T 3.L s E. Murley, Lim.wr gCD p{k D 0 ice of Nuclear Reetter Regulatten -w; a...

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I l of the United States j Stop ChernobylHere l \\ l 'Tf REACrA W $CEs nQ /*r WILL Hcw qv& L W r Tit v ry O uT, l August 15, 1988 i President Ronald Reagan The White House - 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. (( (( h 5t Weehington, D. C. hh l Dear Mr. Presidents 4 l I as writing to you as a lifetime sesber of the Presidential Task i Force and Inner Circle. I have written to,you in the past'en the matte i of nuclear power in this country, and have sent you information en i safety probless in the industry. I have alsa-sent you inf ormation on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's inability to regulate nuclear powe) i plants adequately. A recent General Accounting Office report 1 (enclosed) substantiates the belief of the people of the Town of Rowley, Massachusetts, that the NRC does not always properly investigate problems with nuclear plants ano poor practices within the agency itself. Two years ago, 80% of Rowley signed a petition (enclosed) asking you to undertake an investigatten of the NRC's i practices. The people ef Rowley are still waiting for an acknowledgment of their request., I as the owner and administrator of sea View Nursing Home,in Rowley, Massachusetts which lies just outside the Energeney Preparedness ene for the Seabrook, New Hampshire, Nuclear Power., Plant. j 1 ! tully agree with the State of Massachusetts' conclusion that the population could not be evacuated in the event of a serious nuclear accident at the plant. I an aise the Executive Direster of We The l People Inc.'of the United States which is a non-profit organisat1~en' established to educate the American public about nuclear power. Several years ago, regarding the Shorehaa, New York, nuclear plant, you said you would not interfere with the state's powers to l decide if evacuatten is possible in case of a nuclear accident. i l (enclosed) Now you are considering signing an esecutive order which would take that power away frca the state of Massachusetts for the communities near the Seabrook, New Hampshire, nuclear plant. strengly urge ycu to avead signing such an order. Apart from the fact that evacuation of those communities is j impossible, there are serious safety matters at Seabrook Station still under investigation by the NRC and cthers. One is the strong possibility that substandard piping fiatures were built into the plant 'see enclosed documentation-NRC bulletin No. 96-05, May 6, 1984), such j Piping in the safety system compromises the health and safety of'the public. These piping fixtures are currently failing testing and could .esult in a serious accident at any of the 38 plants involved. f Another prcblem under investigation at Seabrook Station is the l inspection of important safety systers by an unqualified in8Pector. (enclosed) Despite knowledge of the plant builders that this inopottet did not have the proper credentials to perform the work,,he was allcwo: to act in an inspectors' capacity for a year. Des 271, Rowiey, M A 01999.(5%) 646 7959 7 ; ~ ~~ ~~ S0 Coun 5. Phmnuth M A 0 P l. t el* l *469.W1 %ti mal P'en 11 't.14 A l' %. N 4 %,nNewt m D (' OMJ5 otr.g

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was very cursory and incomplete. For reasons cf safety, and also to uphold the idea that the federal government shculd not interfere in powers reserved to the states, ! urge you to fore,ve the esecutive order which would undermine hassachusetts' determination that evacuation around the Seabrook nuclear plant is impossible. j Last October 26, at the gala event for you hosted by the Inner Circle, I gave you a letter (copy of letter. enclosed) wit.h information l and asked you to meet with me. I was trying to convey to you, intermatten we had ab ut substandard materials, int:rmation which was not widely known at the time. I would still like t: seet with.you because there is addittenal information available other than what has now been provided, and note will be fortheeming. Like the problem of I the substandard equipment, tho'NRC aise has the information we have about nuclear plant problems, but is doing nothing about it, esenet =y=. ~ } perhaps to cover it up. Lastiv, the NRC seosle that we have hamn g werkins with fer the east two years are willane to meet with you metu*eniv en iefnem wan af the encruatien which has deliberately imamargined the safety of the Aperteen people. These violations, I_, have been told, are ;ust the soft underte11y of,the nuclear industry and the NRC. I am mura veu can understand the concern of these individuals ever the emanamunneen of costne forvare ans. I as sure you can unseresans t ;,. ; ;;.. ;. ;ncr ":r:- ", --tv -*== reewmen if there are some r-""-""M" ^""""** ens that a full and fair lavestigation will ensue. I strongly believe that a f ull and f aar anvastagatton waa4 unsever ofte of the biggest vtolations of the public trust this sountry has l experienced.

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uttlaty compantes. An ampartial investigatten =f the NRC will be a step t: ward restoring the confidence Of the public in its government. I know you have to be c ncerned about these matters, and I want to thank you fer your considera*1on of them. Please let me kncv when it would be convenaent f r us to meet. g i sie en B..C aley Ufb. Executive Cirector p En=t GA0 report, #evisy Petition, Ih:renas ::erer.t. NRC fulletin St.:$, 3eates:k A11egas; ens, Letter =f 0:t. 06, ;ii7 .... k g e

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.y Box 277 Rowley, Massachusetts 01969 1 Dear Nr. Com1eyt Your le'tter of-August 15, 1988, to President Ronald Reagan expressing your concerns regarding Seabrook Station has been referred to me for response. I share your concern about the potential use'of substandard piping fixtures at. nuclear power facilities. Therefore, NRC issued NRC Bulletin No. 88-05 and Supplements 1 and 2 thereto (copies enclosed) to infom applicants and licensees of this potential problem. The Seabrook Station licensee reviewed the Seabroek Station construction records in accordance with the requirements of the bulletin and supplements and detemined that 369 suspect fixtures were installed in the Seabrook Unit 1 plant. A report of the licensee's review was submitted to NRC on August 25, 1988, and is currently being reviewed by'the NRC staff. The' I applicant must demonstrate to the satisfaction of the NRC staff that all of r these suspect fixtures provide an acceptable level of quality and safety. A second concern expressed in your letter was that an vnqualified inspector l had been used at Seabrook Station. An Authorized Nuclear Inspector (AND trainee was assigned to the Seabrook Station from May te December 1985. The NRC review detemined that the ANI trainee perfeemed assignments in esecedemes:m. with his assioned training program and that qualified ANIS had evaluated.and v monitored his training, progress, and inspection work. The-NRC concluded that t there was neither a noncompliance with the American Society of Mechanical Engineers Code nor evidence of wrongdoing. You also expressed a concern regardine the thoroughness of the licensee's [ inspection to detemine that " counterfeit" bolts were not built into Seabrook Station. The licensee's iritial inspection, perfomed in response to NRC Bulletin No. 87-02 (copy enc!csed), detemined that the fasteners used in Seabrook Station were acceptable. After that initial inspection, NRC issued Supplements 1 and 2 (copies enclosed) to NRC Bulletin No. 87-02. These supplements recuested and then clarified the request for additional infomation on the suppliers and manufacturers from whom the subject fasteners may have been purc'hased. The NRC reviewed the infomation submitted by the Seabmok. Station licensee in response to Supplements 1 and 2 to NRC Bulletin No. 87-62 and concluded that the actions taken by the ifcensee were both complete and adequate and that the fasteners installed in Seabrook Station are acceptable for their intended uses. Thank you for-your interest'in these matters. / Sincerely, ,.p [' f.J homas F { M aa m a. Murl y, Director u m-ha -3

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was a new ag"ainst freedsun af spansk en - this country. Condey omed. Aluseugt Comley was dented air spect, te huelly distributed bumper stickers. signs and news releases. He also estd he helsted a "Stop Chernobyl" sign during Tuesday's convention addreas by New teampshire Gov John Sununu. j i Don't pass him by B As the delegates to the Republican Na-tional Convention streamed out of the Su-i perdome Tuesday ntSht. they encoun-l ' tered an energetic young man on a mis- 'ston. "Pleasel" Jeek lack shouted to ( stun 9ed delegates. "Anybody who has passes for tontght! Gov. Sununu of New England is asking for them for souve- ! nirs!" lack said he is a volunteer from Ohio who had been asked by the Repubit+ l l can National Committee 1o assist the New j England delegation. And after Sununu delivered his addrew to the convention. the governor asked him to collect the $h peseen, lack mat l ftnished with his tale. 1.ack returnM in his 1.isk "Pleawl Any-Inly w hn tus i.e.,e - b : t nitcht.

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t-n n e. N uch at 7.on e ' where "No ley, said he did it because "we musti, act was to hanc del:ver c note to Lvoeuation Possible ' tJert people before it is toolate." f ormer Pre" cent Ronald ficapan T!.i ogn. according to Comley, The impassioned owner of ceseri5:rg &c Itowley. Mos.. rer vsents a warning' to people ley Nursing home got invol reri:1ent s s:and' > 'om there. he des eloped ant:c, t raiu'n'y mio a "rodioactive dan, fighting the Seabrook after he that inc:aded ai planes nvin; near ge. one. he learned bedridden elderly j tients within the power, plant's : t m wro.e H oae .a the Nuchar Many peop.e gring to those fleculatory Ce mmission of fices beaches are unaware that a serious behind during'any eveesistion. '[J~

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.~. . _ ~ THE DMLY NEWS ~.. Xewburyport, Massachusetts ~ a. i 7' l State eases anti-sign stance \\ t l ACLU argues Comley's evacuation billboard permitted SAI.!SittiltY - An anti nucicar clear power plant evacuation Cosaley said' yesterday he re. pie Isic.,an organhation set up by tdillmond along Route 95 was plans, on the fansner Marigold ceived word the board had Cosnicy, which has Peters' per-rr.*ntal a septiese last week by functiosa taall propesty owned 14y chasaged its stand in response to maissiusa to use the property. l o ricuts who presiously Chris Peters. arguaients filed by Massachu-Therefore. Reinstein argued e state l s..ugtat its geshovat in October. the state Outikxer setts Civil Liberties Unia attor-successfully that the sign falls Itomley saansing hosne owner Advertising Itoard said the sirn ney John Reinstein. within an exenaption in the law Stepleen Cosoley erected dee sign, violates a roadside advertising Reinstein had said the e "I ad-tlut allows a41vertising as an on-j j wta.ch desa unces Seabrook nu-law and ordesed its resnoval. vertises the views of We the,w pretnises use of property. l SC8EDULED ON JANVARY 1, 99'0, I l[E WILL AAVE a MORE T>0 ARM 60/M6 MP IN l MESACHUS6Tr5,ON ROUTE 1 NORTH AFTpE MEEffMAC l NEIL MID6E AND ON E00rE IIO IN SAllsBUR'/. OKE MORE 160AO Witi LSO BE 60lkfi RP ON fouTE Msr M'hND m JLANT'5 AORTH 6 ATE AT TEE SEABRock'/OMPTON UNE-j Sere GNCLOSED LETTOL E#LAINlb4 LCCkTIONS. i 1

1 wc ,t. m Nuclear Infor.mation and Resource Service 142416th Street, N.W., $uite 601, Washington, D.C. 20036 (202) 328 0002 j f tonedofDir,ons y'*j December 1, 1989 l Kev Drey 4 i p' N, yet wy Dear Friends l in.n w e New te,6. Ny Ddy'd H. Ifpepweta gngi.gggggggg ggg{y{gg gggyg ggglgy {g ygll gggyn 37;7,h* for his, ability to 'oring attention to an issue. Recently, Steve put up a billboard at the entrance t Aranu. c4 a billboard that to the seabrook evacuation sone,ial than even he surledaa l turned out to be more controvers ^'*a OH l ' MN'dp - thought ~ (see enclosed article). Although Massachusetts tried to force down the sign last ma.y wo.un Iconth, the state's Civil Liberties Union stepped in, N * * ' " y'*,y'l%oc and the sign is still standing today. l tHyn we,es Waihmston, DC Now Steve wants to do to the Nhc what he's done to C' Nath*en welch Seabrook. He wants to put up billboards all across I.'iI.Y4d,;,,,yswg the country to bring attention to the agency's corruption and to the need for a congressional cen==e = andse v. car. investigation of the NRC. l s, 4,,,,,,, i Ivne Alien C","j,',,i c.,a,,,, He would like your help. He's willing to print the l billboards, but'obviously he can't put them up am,i wu, senv6 wee a mem* everywhere by himself. Are there billboard sites gg, near you that you think would-be a good place for O such a billboard? Would your group be willing to evi,nc w np 1 see m s.on rent the billboard space for a' month or so, if Steve supplied the sign? Would you be willing to work in a ^** Uc,C*'" coordinated effort (i.e. have billboards go up l across the country on the same day or week, in order p,ved cohen Aa.ocen snetiivie' to obtain media coverage)? Hertan tiliion steve suggests the billboard says CONGRESS: Protect i ^ **' l D.YcoNmlNme, U.S. Democracyl Investigate the NRC. CUNY Med6 cal behool' It sounds like a good idea to us. If you'd like more mata cut Q, m,, infor nation about these ideas, contact Steve directly, at We the People, Box 277, Rowley, MA Aemi sw Hov4 01969, 508-948-7959i fax: 508-948-7377. give a.see in.isonmentel Delease League' BeSt ViShes, Or. N W Ibeet calitoerna som Uservey' or.14th Johnstud (Rvironfmental cetinsen on Nuclear Power' cherwi kmand Michael M riotte "*'** l'*'av Anweimes' Executive Director De.muvinmeinshd nas.eseteve wane Canoe'en' Mery lentlait uw tem enest ^18*'6** didstated la a seesn/ mesi swelast tet1D' 70lity 'orpainstioni leswd ie..sent.f.m n easy l ++ TOTAL PAGE.001 4

WILLCU AHO CRCADE WANTS CON:RESSIONAL PROWEOF MC WAtmet0NG The Nuclear information & Resource Service-a granroots, antinuclear organitation-is asking its memhett to help I:rlWe a c&mpaign to dot the country with billiceds calling on Congress to inves-tigate elleged wrongdomt by the NRC. O ihe billboard campmsn bwilds on flamtioyant anunuclear acuvist Stephen Comity's !attst pubhuty stunt. Comley, a vocal cntic of the $tabrook nuclear plant and NRC pohcits, recently eracted a b 11boud on pnvate land th Sahsbury, Mass., just ouuide the Seabrook emergency evacuation zone.The billboatd reads: " Danger, Seabrook nuclear eone; no evacuanon possible." Arguing that the billboard violates regulations, the Massachusetts Outdoor Adverusing Board wied to get the sign removed, but w hen the Massachusetts Civil Libernes Union objected, the adverdsing bowa decided a take another look to determine whether the sign-- on private land-is esempt. As of i last week, the sign was still standing. l In a recent letter to members, NIR$ encentive director, Michael Manotte, said Comley would, in es. g sence, split the cost of the nationwide billboard campaign. "He's willing to pnnt the billbords, but obt T viously he can't put them up everywhere by himself," Manotte said "Are there billboard sites near you , that you eink would be a good place for such a billboard? Would your group bc willing to rent the billboard space for a month or so,1f Steve supphed the sign?" Comley suggests the new billbouds read: " Congress: Protect U.$, Democracy; investigate the NRC " NTR$ directed all Amerested parties to contact Comley's We the People organization. Comley h said last week that antinuclear groups in his area and m pennaylvania had shown interest in the cam. Y paign, but "nothing has been confirmed as yet. It takes time." Comley is also a central figure m NRC's year long probe of Roger Fonuna, the suspended deputy director of NRC's Othee of Investigations (see related story elsewhere in this issue). Among his many publicity generating stunts, Comley hired a biplane to butt the Republican National Convention site in 1988. The plane trailed a giant.stred banner urging the public to "Stop Chemobyl Here" byjoining the i Asht against nuclear power, He has callad for the ousser of fonner NRC Enocudve Director for j Operations Victor Stello and once offered the NRC commissioners eopics of the U.S. Constitution. "I l want to give these to the commission as a gif t," he said. "I really think you ought to read it because you apparently haven't ever read it before,"--Dave kroro, WasMagton l COMMissl0N UNANIMOUSLY PICKS TAYLOR FOR EXECUTWE DIRECTOR POST l James Taylor has been named NRC esecutive director for opersuons, replacing Victor Stello, who l has moved on to DOE, l Announcing the appointment December 1 NRC Chairman Xennsth Care praised Taylor for the "outstandmg" work he has done "in every posinon he has heid" at NRC,"He has a broad ischalcal background, a thorough knowledge of the NRC and its responsibilities, and the unanimous support of the commission,"Carr said. The day before the announcement, Cart told inside N.R.C. he had not apnhen with the other com. missioners about the EDO post, and added that he had no umetable for malung a decision, "We work irt our own good time over here," Cart said. N nest t!.ctnoon, the commissioners chose Taylor (INRC,4 Dec., 3). Taylor jomed NRC in May 1980. Thren ) cars later he was named deputy director of the Of6ce of In. spection & Enforcement, and m 1965, dir clor of that of6ce. Since July, he had pulled double duty, serv. ing as deputy director for regional operai ans and acung EDO, Stella--the Bush admmistradon's embattled nomince to be DOE assistant secretFy for defense programs-was " detailed" to DOE in late July,just three days after his nomination to the DOE post was made offacial. Last month, w ith his detail coming to an end and his con 6rmanon for the DOE post stal. led on Capitol Hill, Stello accepied appoinunent to a lesser post, the "pnneipal deputy assistant secretry" for DOE's defence programs, a job that does not require Senate confirmation. The move, at least temporanly, sidestepped congressional opposidon to his appointment at DOE assistant secretwy for defente programs. The Senate Armed $ervices Committec will hold additional heannts on Stello's nomination later this month and is c apected to act expedinously on the nomination w hen Congrets reconsenes in January. t Prior to jommg NRC. Taylor sersed with the Of 6ce of Naval Reactor 5 as associate director of the DOE's high speed submuine projects. Belore that, he served 20 years as an engineerms duty ol6eer in the nuclear Navy. Ta> tor graduated liom the Naval Academy in 19% and earned a master of science and engmeenng degrre from the Mauachusetti institute o( *!cchnology m 1901. gQy,hy 3 KSIDL h a C timmte is, tan

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l ,1 friend anyo-he hoe been chergag "They have human error at Three Mete j shout in a solo effort to step the lelund and in Rumans, but they don't apening of Seehrenk, the aucteer power have it se New Hampshwer i that has 12 nrise from the nurseg The 17 towns en New Hampshwe and he owns and operates m Rowley, the es in Meneschusette wahin a 10 nute reelnes of the nuclear plant aR Teret he ranged the town of 4.000 i j j linens up 1.400 recedents to sign a have droit piens, and the same hvecht petiteen to Gov. Michael 5. Dukokas (D) thrend of honocy runs through them. i demandme that Rowley be included in Potente are. for instance, metructed not eveeueteen piene tems drawn up in the to try to rettwve thew children from event of a Sestreek accalent. Then he erhosi if the areas go off. Their young went to the State House m Boston to win he taken to other towns by bus, hedget Dukaks m person not to okay Comsey's two sons ettend a retponal tte piene-o move that would lugh school m Pestody that a withm effectively keep Seatrook usepereuve, the to nute redne seed so wouhl be While he wde runs See View, eneer the eneste of the Emergency Comery dette e and out of Weehmeten. Operstens Center, wheth presently hee He haunts the effaces of the NRC and as needertson en Rowley. peppero the commesseeners wuh letters. Tom Moussen, esordmeter of tee had se etereww wah the newest Citmens W6then the Ten Mile Radius. espomtee,jemos K. Aeoestme,duras peeste out that some drafts esN for the - which Aasemene conceeed that the ementet of city buses from Booten. conmusseen *seted more se the some 40 subes swer, to park var j protector of the mdustry than the straggiore and people without rore. l protector of the pubhc.* There a talk of having eerises people - IJhe every other Weehmeten put ribbene sa thew doortmots. But petdesner, Comiey wants to ese the

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pies aloft agem. Comley. e skydiver. What keeps Comley game et het heleves m overfhghts. He has heed headlong pace are the panns for nurems nee to fly over Boston to good home and hospital potente. *which.* es and over Concord. N.H., to - the Newburyport droit ears.*ceanot he ducerose Gov. John H. Sununu (R), . smoved." whois tendmg off a vigorous reelection ' The Dervumen histructione adeus - challenge from ante $estress elemente. shuttog deers, windows and outente ser - I The president mov soon see e streeener wats, and

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anner reanuhauwere if possette.* Promeent. 5ee Me. Comeer.' -What the heu hand of a way a that to l Comesy pays Ier su thee actmty wdh treet your snether er your grandlotherf his own money, ses view is a unes-- seis Coodef. None of the emnet pensee ~

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me das m New York, who laughed and se64, 'Thars the show where the decibel level moetee Besest da. elm e8EBeale b e genst eeWIbseh 8 enteeds the l Q. level? j e p ussesse m W M W Never having actually seen 'The Morten W b b h God, b mese note w me ese Dowey Jr. Show, I dee6ded le invest te. ow way senses tM desehg Get Ibsemy men es safe ni m d w es g he B U tietween some professional stalppers and e ,gge ep and dreat Ite m state senator from New Jersey who ensasted 8F tem The essed b en t'elegt,esseeWB that his 17. year old daughter still was e e no and othpue, % memb wat k beertf' g,rgm 'Oh sure, pal? one of the strippers BP pebe, sadhug a e hred at him. *lt's guys like you *Ma. g we he head eseMe WB Eingeb,seeb and see girls hke tres every night,,that come M,g e the esmese,lutseeuem esel het They but N. blot bei 1 And (nere I had rey first ghmpse of 88hd a ne Morton Downey Jr., a chain smokms, gold door (a wide epos ame operung a g,g est gelsee. Whees thite heir 19 8: bracelets danghng, tee almeet se loud on his of menectas yWho paa Demier put We Iniger h e esehet.'fe as hofespe

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mouth kmd of guy, makmg obscene emarks Jr,*s emblem)is perhed by the entsenee. 9, and maultmg any and everyone who dared We are escorted into the Geese Reem, inn up on be show. 'Ihe greater the where beehy libereb ese hew W the 8.s game paga insult butled. the louder the cheers from show. Actm the has,in to W h b 'The beerese DeWast. 988' me DI ' ed by the Wien

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• yo en nie go but te'e with yss en elow P.. Downey brought en a ettlppet who esid 8-things. Good lush? 00eemette the heery -

O fE ceowd saa he heest shuNbng the b she does it for Chr6st. He called her a 'elut? lahey, woning to be let bite the NO ves with Ded item ' y g"",g;y,* e ns? a dooker? and e trarev He,,, the et.d o,,. e abeged she had *daseases? and banged hse My sa$ter Mary i peMs up agamet hers. Weeks 'later i the brarut, our eingers in the crowd.,,,,, yg' g,"d, 3Q, g,,,g,, , learned she sued him for $40 ddhon.... I spent three days in a cold owest debet. Cemley nueveds 30.T.oharte that any *5tet 8 mgenese ese one spaning shelset Nuclear Weste*6:85 top Chernebyl Here. He gives one to Mary and her deve into the eher Dwtg me asst beoek es pra ing whether even to show up, Finally, I s hallway desplaying them to the leneup of ,,,,,'s to,,h,elded Cannoy a,nd enr,e, 3 rauonahaed my appearance en the baste ,,,,,,,,,,, gg,,g, g g,, nat Mq;My Mouth's young sud.ence proba-dioohng Morton Downeyheads. 'How snurh,.v.,Intert fiAfter the station break i tay can ,t,e reached through any other. ore Yoge,abrts,lpdyM ene beauts. ., stands and heterrupts; Downey tell medaum, and the motto that I il try anythmg Tree? Mary answers,'*but only ll ou to 34it.The emisnab cheetin ence/Then i picked up e New York tabloid won nasa? e breaks out.

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• erges Caer to be mari with a chair during a freces en bie talk show, unieen. A Con Edeca edbetel +===gd8ama that Couder & Deumypet Geraldo had Just eenerged trase three hours the T. shirts are egdast the retak i semind

, g.m M to get to M el of reconstructive surgery on has nose, and I her,"These are me rulet? eboer. thought tc mnett. Yesarree, I must t* The crowd. new enhed with entinsk* On the openhor Desasy esta mune. slogans ecrees thenr heer helhes, is oested evy trem Ohio ses en the seri 85 and we are shuttled through the metal ggag.mo week befest, Be Bees te ' The mornmg d t.w show Newsweek hits emmtere and into the stadle6 Cemley le gester and hts een see bem the uands uth a cover story on ' Trash eested en page sent to e aucteur.hesustry persued. DOS hoek tekeethekudst TC cahing Downey a

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etend and inslate that to hig's ype. cdeross et ank" and *Moruhcation Mort? I'm told that l'8 he ehertug the seulde't pr ear hees basa hp D e rv holds court in the aromatic Lectern? whch has the open. mouth decal redeuen the authertitee inund le me er mmn cd brm jersey, under the shadow plastered on it, with a former under secre. the lomily's property, Mort is tiev of ne mely smog-scrapers of the New tary of the U.S. Department of Energy liness es. even ths poor pur en tho pt )oth City skihne. At the Meadowlands (DOD. What in has have i gotten anyeelf Wah eseh torh tte ersed ehenolar se Hdion, ahere Downey houses his guests,l Into? Derlag the easeessessbeedthe peo rneet up with Steve Comley, en irrepress. The music starte. AR ytee, er tems me to tehe es lostmo eser i e b e 'rmt Me shmistrator turned on-Enter Morton Downey Jr. He rune and the fermer DOS sedeL roe eh v :u tu D ao a lem onto the s4te. TI't r- " My dreamed t,f doing that. ,;{

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• Accommodations for ' done'te of dry, eenitised pubhc effaire showe l

! some guests en 'The Morton tiowney Jr. I'w appaamd on. M le not e edense of Show' are proveded by the Meadowlanda Downey. Su! the theught ettere le age that' 3 i Ndienr .sneyhe the teamen the Asserleen peopk! That see k. % eatent of my motional don't een eben loans le set haamma the: television espesure. I heure I need up thout innesem:. t teammen these ese so five of the 15 sminutes ei fame Andy Warhol few forene that esteh er held the estention' . pressood. AAer the show. It's oli to dmner of the awrese *wr. particularly the na4 i et, you guessed R the Meadowlando lidton. tion *e youth. m chehenge to liberal Amer : Cemier, Ded, sie and I ,into the Ica b not to senaer er ignem sie magnetic: hotel restaurent end, ne' and behead we e,, pull of esmeene Nhe Desesy, mer to wring: eested et the table nest to Dec Strempelove. eur hende helplessly, but to GSer eherne ' the D01; hack, and their enteurope et ned, tives that hath inform and entertam. i * ' ! eorwukante. I o.m to the recheateen that Besides, esmetimes even a liberal hee to' i I guests se hoe o'e of the lease, efter eheut down ha opponent, hault him, look bemt encouraget t insult and attack each him equarely 6n the eye end yell *2:nur+ 1 ether. have been giartered at the same hF I bet Mae Dukalue wuhes he had. ' hotel. l who le nurseng a gin end tonic, and says Comley gree over to Doe Strangelove, Nier #Juevit es es selinerJeor erumeder. I petitiref esponieuread neteessif ,I hello. Strangelow, a bit rattled from the dinerdirni. Af Gierdene nserissfaselaere ow refo.e, in WL. hands Cnmb v p,m.,;, - -~

YC>RK CO ~ T COAST STAR I i o a__.--.,. t xmm l ._ _ e _,em -_..w_._. e__. ea a r Nuclear power watchdog group brings crusade to where president Bush lives ,,e, _,, l demonstrated several times in pa t k f.NNE'RUNK - The founder ' I } "' a'r" rested r = - w. were in a ron siolo i of a nus leir pow er w atchdog : l group hopes to sta rt an in. ~. demonstration m early June. W._r "l sciangstion mio nuclear regulation "ractices tn FninF to the people of. _" di l We the People group les,t. Comley said he got snvolved in it "rcudent George Bush a home-M ar p u er usue about foi yean ago, when he discovered th $tephen B Comley of Rowley, T. [ ' i many of the residents of the N 'We the People' founder View Nursing Home he opermes. ,~ I Man. said the non profit group y l' ' g

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Rowley would not tic evacuated mill wn be arrulating petitions case of a accident at Seabmit t ..ilhny for an investigetson mio ' $mee he began, he claims to hm ' " ~ r .r.e4 he claims u the federal Nu. 7 speru more than 42 weeks in at clear Regulatory Commission's ' ~ nation's capital talking to officia %. ' ' ~ about the dangers of nucle. l role in the une of unsafe pam m, ~ ' . power nuclear power plants in an mter. ( f f mg p is now ren f -.amnet . Ag, in ',$8,,*" ase r sa pasa e. a.a assere couple of weeks his plans a n' shop g a enncounk 6 Lower Village. ,,ni,no en,,,ie", tounce, siechen a comiev of mooiev, annea. has tiepun on hold while he snapsman to "we the peop ,c in the former Chickeoee Otti shop on Route 9 m Ken-ohich he hopes to open in a couple nebunks Lower vitiage which he hopes to open in a couple of seeks subpoena frosn the NRC in Ua

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• We feel that the American should have an impast upon the estends up the Mame coast to Old Comley turn ovee tape sesenhne peop6e have a nght to know the president 5 mind '

Orchard Beach. Southern Mame he may have sende of phens can truth and we feel that, obvioust). roads are part of the evacuatmn versations with Roger A. Peraars. Kennebunkpon is anoaher good NRC information officer Frank glan for New Castle and parts of foceer depany d6 sector of the O place to start," said Comley. We Ingraham said this week that nu. rottemouth and Hampton m Neo fice of L. 7 - The Ofhi the Peop6e was formed m the fall clear power plant purs that fall Hampshire. of investigatassa is a part of it of 1987 and has more than 5.000 short of engmeenng specificatiorn NRC respoesib6e for looking mi memben nationwide. he said. The are regularh found, but said the Low reiwer testing, up to 3 violations of NRC rules by utd group haa other offices in Rowley NRC does not sweep the problems percent of full power, abound be corupanias and Plymonah. Mass. Concord under the rug - it alens the plant compleasd by the end of this week. N.H. and Washington. D C. operaton and govemmen: aFenc'e s said a spokesman for the opera-C W 's b {r N Hadk g, about the parts. although he ad-ton. New Hampshire Yankee. this The nuclear activist said he has mmed the bad parts utua' ion n a week Rob Williams said the start. ger dias the NRC does ont has been m contact with some people difficult sour arms of testing at Seabrook was posa. the anderny to subpassa, Cemies one to "fetoiersees the poned a week after three valves is afeng as ha clapat e in Kennetiunkport, where Bush around ' The NR o*ms a home ce Walker's Poim. nuclear moustr> wnh five ecm. manufassured by Hammaaneshi cf hoe , and la and is waiting for thsh support to masionen appomied rn the l' s Rhode Isheid didn't span a the pnyme cassen boomas of Ms ou start the petnion campaign He has president. ano a cha. red bs Lanao nghi speed, and were ama==y sely 8P8k'" C"C88* d

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q 4 y PortsmoutthlIerald R Nuclear foe fined'8155,000 for dehring tape sug@__ i BOSTON (AP) Stephen. hee been feed stas,eso in A,sse ser,' Coudey, an antHucisar actsvist - i la eW Neder is se he } rnade of a soeveresties ' with ai regulatoryofficial. i U.S. District Judge Robert Esoten said Condey was not above the law and o , he rdered the Anes, se,,t s,W.ed ie aan, rc2mtsasa".'s:t;eettin 1 Elb.fRe.b.d,em den.e ra e .ser . m he es Rhe:"T.hetween Co,odey and r r Fortuna, an NRC in. 1 ter, winch Conde hewereso.11edsecretly. y is sa'd to The tapes are needed to [ densrealme if a eseler talpreperty diennesed instreu.ase as canter, she NRC. 2.... an'R Ceederle a less thne des of es.. j Senkesh,31.11. suenser piset and leender of h,nt6 amelser greg,f a

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j \\ (NuciaiMUNHUK 1 A Publication of the Nuclear information & Resource Service Tebruary 12, 1990 I Vol.' $. No. 11 ll i 4 STrim NOMINATION oN MotD As Ic SAYS ME IS ETIII INVEETIc1 TING l The controversial nomination of Victor stello, Jr. to be ~! l Assistant Secretary of Energy for Defense Programs has been 1 placed on indefinite hold. According to a January 31 statement by 'l ) senate Armed services Committee Chairman Sam Nunn (D-Ga.) and ranking minority member John Warner (R-Va.), the committee learned in late January that stello, former executive director of i the NRC, is still under investigation by the NRC's inspector general. The statement said no further action would be taken on the nomination until that' investigation is complete. According to a January 30 letter from David Williams, the NRC's inspector general, a three-tiered investigation is still 4 underway into the Roger Fortuna matter. Fortuna was formerly deputy director of the NRC's office of Investigations. Stallo had. approved creation of a $10,000 " slush fund" to make cash payments - to a controversial whistleblower from Nine Mile Point. Although stallo has claimed he only sought safety information about the plant, others have charged that the real information Stallo was { interested in was the whistleblower's allegations that Fortuna t had had improper contact with anti-nuclear activist Steve Conley. Other investigations have essentially cleared Fortuna of ? l wrongdoing. stello had long been at war with the Office of Investigations, and had at various times attempted to curtail ite l authority. i In his letter, Williams wrote that his investigation is focusing on "Mr. Fortuna's dealings with Mr. Stephen Conleyt the NRC's conduct of the Fortuna investigation, and, statements made by NRC employees to Congress and to the federal court about the conduct of the investigation." The letter specifically added, "one issue which will be addressed during our current efforts concerns Mr. Victor Stallo's involvement in the Fortuna matter and statements made-by him to Congress concerning that involvement." one likely area for the Ic's investigation is stello's testimony before a House subcommittee headed by Rep. Peter Kostmayer (D-Penn.), which examined the Fortuna matter. Kostasyer has said he believes Ste11o' testimony was less than forthcoming. ~ Williams said that "the investiryative field work" on Stello "should be completed within the next several months." l Energy secretary James Watkins reiterated his confidence in stello, saying, "no f acts have brought to my attention at this time which are not already part.of the record before" the Armed services committee. He added that stallo would continue serving / in the department's number two defense programs spot, which does (_ not require senate confirmation. Stallo, however, currently is recovering from a recent skiing accident. Watkins said he expects that consideration of the nomination could be renewed in April--a perhaps optimistic view of when the IG's investigation will be completed. some observers believe, - however, that stello's nomination has now dragged on so long and become so tainted that it is only a matter of time before it is r formally withdrawn. F -4..- .~,...-.-,--......m.,w-.,... - -... - - - ~.. -. - - - - -.. -,

l i l l i STATEMENT Of' i I SENATOR SAM WUNH (D-GEORGIA) AND SENATOR JOHN WARNER ,3 ON THE N0%ir.AT10N OF VICTOR STELLO, JR. 70 SE THE ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF ENERGY FOR DEFtWSE PROGRAMS l ?. h... [- JAnhRY 31, 1999

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i ? Senator Sam Hunn (D-Georgia) and Senator John NarnerL l (R-Virginia) 'made' the following 'stitement on the nominatten of;... ..i ,... e u :. Victor Stello, Jr. 'to be the Assistant Secretfry of Energy for. y- ~ .a . +, e s .~ Defense Programs: 'Th's Committoo learned ~last week-that-the-Inspector-General-- l b '. T ~ ~.. of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has determined'it i f '~' ~ ~ 6 4 f mesessary to continue an investigation late-the MC',e handilag,.ef.,. e.ma. mars *ah a,eae..oaaas etva.or n.u., =., = $betd.e.aea to hessis or ir,.rr.orge.rgw l Programs. After discussing this matter during the Committee

• a meeting on January 25, we were briefed by the RC,Inspeeter

~ General on January 26, 1990. A copy of a letter we regnestad from the NRC Inspector General, David williams, on the soepe of the investigation is' attached. i

• The cosaittee discussed this matter and decided to take no action at this time on the Stello nomination pending receipt of

.t I"-W--b r -further_ information from the Inspector Genersi. We disen.s. sed _,3 1s .+ matter with the Secretary of' Energy, Admiral James D. Watkins, and de' have attached a copy of his letter on this matter.' 4., b

l i [' O NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION { .I wom=cvow. p.c, unu ' '%,,,,,J t January 30, 1990-I OFFICE OF THE wspsCTOR GENERAL The Honorable San Nunn chairman, Committee on e L

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Armed Services .? ' t W'iW United states senate a.d.&w [ ' Dear Mr. Chairzan This will. confirm our discussion on January 26, 1990,- regardingJ the ongoing office of the Inspector General investigation inte .i. the Roger Fortuna matter. The investigation contains' three tiers of inquiry: Mr. Fortuna's dealings yith Mr. Stephen Conleyt the.... .., m NRC's conduct of the Fortuna investigation, and,- statements 55de by NRC employees to Congress and to the federal court about-the conduct of the investigation.- l Thus far, our investigation has identified the issues to be' . examined and resolved, beginning with Mr.'.Ellison's complaint'in August less and continuing through recent Congressional i testimony. Earlier NRC offerts to' investigate'the matter..Will.be. ? ^~ useful in resolving these issues. These efforts include Judge Alan Rosenthal's invaatigation,:forter Inspector General J. Brian -Myland's analysis-of Mr. y;rtuna'e. professional senduct endi.@ '- p.,. Acting NRc Inspeotor Generd Martin Malseh's analysis of:evidemos - gathered to date.- Additio ally, Judge Christine Rohl's decision-en Mr. Fortuna's grievance will' aise be useful.L g.. In addition to these investigative etforts,; additional field'wiirit is required to resolve all of the issues in this: investigation. ~ That work is underway. one issue which will be addressed during our current efforts concerns Mr. Victor stallo's involvement in the Fortuna matter and statements made by him to congress concerning that l involvement. The investigative field work on that aspect should be completed within the next several months. As requested, the committee-will be notified when the field ~ investigation concerning Mr. Ste11o's activities is semplete. Sincerely, he.tm ~ t David C. Williams 0 @] ) ~ ~ 2nspector General ~ ' C ~ . ~..

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I. - . Dear Mr. Chairmant r I understand that the 'new. Inspector General-at the) Nuclear. Commission :(NRC). La continuing 'enl ongoing-. Reguistory investigation into allegattens-that'have been made regarding i certain events ~ ooneerning Victor stello.-. No. facts. have been, brought to my attention et this time whish are 'notaireggy : [ part of.the record before your Committee.1 o I have. been informed' that.the NRC's Inspector General will' have concluded his. fiold work on this subject by the and of As a result, I have -( March, barring unforeseen circumstances. withholding r iinal considerati .,4 . ~.- .... no objection to nominetton of-Mr..Stelle to be Assistant. secretary _of..tnergy_," ~ - ~ ~ until April or earlier es t' and thel Committee review any new - information that asy be forehoestag, in the. interim,.1 want-4' ... _...you 'to know that Victor > Settle has awfu11 eenfidemos Usi&he-- .. 4'.. "'i oontinues to.funotten in his sehe :es principan, q t Assistent for Def.ense Progress. ~.. -. - S&aggetlys.n. styer g gg;g. g.m s... /k M \\ ,t enes D.--Watkine :. Admiral, U.S. Navy-(Retired) l. t t V l .. y Q ':.,..,,;., W.----- ,a ~ < - - - -, -,.., ~,,, -., -,,.

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phen B. Comley was ortiered Thursday formation to Comley.' force that issue" Comley said. ' f* i 2 to pay $173.u00 in fines in his continuing Comky was found ha contempt of ; A federal appeals court has rejected =. dicptite with the Nuclear Regulatory court on July 27 by Keeton for refusing Comley's argument that the subpoena ol 3 Commission. the Judge's order that he comply with was impetiper. EMS - J' ) U.S. District Judge Robert E. Keeton the subpoena. Keeton, telling Condey he Comley was not aBowed to speak hi - 3 - .i ordered Comley. a Rowley resident, to was not above the law, fined hhn to court'nsesday. But following the hear- .se pay the fine for failure to comply with a Ibrce w..vt. w. Ing, he styested his longstanding con-: six-monthold contempt of court order. ' Comley is being fined $1,000 a day Ibr ' tentiori that the real issue is the NRC. ~ In spite of the hefty fine, Comley continuing to resist the contempt of. " Die lsuue ls not fines," he said. "It's J appr-ircd no closer to turning over tape court oeiler.% rough Tuesday, the fines arruption withht the NRC." l rm,rdings he supposedly made of tele. amoimted to $172,500. Comley previous-Condey repeatedly has said the sub-. .-) n~ phemeconversations with a senior NRC ly had been ordered to pay $17,500 ha poena is part of ari NRC effort to sBence. 4, q official. fines. Its critles and send a message to em-i -I don't have any intention of turning To date, Comley has peat just 82,500. pioyees that they should not taBt out. l i over the tapes." Comley said after the He says he has no assets snd gave no, side the agency. ~. %N,'. I hearing, adding quickly that he never ' indication that he intends toipay any fin = day said the agency's invesilpa-f l % N b h;. -1. *, 48)sa la ar*tsIkin hant" Aseaguna to ha s anote. 1 ' !.,,1_ q' anum easwe moto has acknowledged that they exist. 'UIS CW h OUm mt NRC @. ?g W he h & : *** fia Io M M SO SETI N, N IIIE, SE h N gu, ~ f ... ~ a e .*W. 8 makJor. MM 8, Jidan ... g,, e,, t..- p . -. = l. g. s..#. l ' I 1 a i <. + f a: a ft i f, I-u ,-.a-_.._- ~.-

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